SF Real Estate

Temescal: A formerly politically charged area that was a hotbed for Black Panther activity slowly transforming into a neighborhood someone made up called Temescal. People commute here from SF to wait in line for hours to eat at Homeroom, a restaurant that serves macaroni and cheese and nothing else.

Here we have lovely condos being built a stones throw from MacArthur BART station in Oakland. Yes, they are shipping crates stacked on top of one another. I know you. You’re thinking “oh, cool! I saw that on Pinterest!” but look at this. Does this look glamorous to you? Now, take a second to think about living in a box. A box meant to hold cargo and be shipped across oceans. This is not a home. This is a box that you go to at the end of work, sit there and wait for work to start again so you can get the fuck out of your box.

I know people in SF like to fancy themselves innovative and creative. You’re thinking “What are we supposed to do with limited resources in our highly desirable area of the world? Plus Dwell magazine did a whole issue on the tiny housing movement so: FUTURE.” This is not a solution to the housing crisis in SF, this is a product of it. If you can’t see that you’re a fuckin’ idiot. This isn’t some punk rock guy taking a shipping container out into the woods and building a home out of it or sustainable housing for disabled children, this is some asshole thinking up the cheapest way to make condos and then selling them to scared people that can’t find homes because they’re transplants and have no real social network and want to fit in.

I can’t even imagine how much they will charge for these. Can’t wait to see the Trulia ads for them: Wide angle lens the FUUUUCK outta that in the hopes that it looks less like a prison. Or less metaphorically, a god damn shipping container, cos that’s what it is.