San Francisco housing is so expensive that middle-class workers are moving into dorms with shared bathrooms

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• San Francisco residents are continually finding new ways to deal with an affordable housing shortage. 
• Starcity is a coliving startup that offers housing to middle-class earners who make less than $90,000 a year.
• Members pay between $1,400 and $2,400 a month for a fully-furnished bedroom and a shared bathroom.

Rent and home prices are so high in San Francisco that even non-tech, middle-class workers are moving into dorms.

In a recent New York Times story, reporter Nellie Bowles says "the middle-class backbone of San Francisco — maitre d's, teachers, bookstore managers, lounge musicians, copywriters, and merchandise planners" are growing more and more comfortable with the idea of community housing, a housing solution largely pioneered by the Bay Area tech crowd.  See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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