Peter Berkowitz,whose chronicle of living in a wooden box amid San Francisco housing crisis went viral, forced out after city inspectors ruled it a fire hazardThe San Francisco man who received national attention for living in a wooden box in a friend’s living room violated local housing laws and created a major fire hazard, and according to city officials,who believe pressured him to remove down his pod and move out.
Peter Berkowitz’s chronicle went viral after he explained in an op-ed for the Guardian that his solution to the city’s housing crisis was to pay $400 a month to live in a tiny pod that he built in his friend’s place a semi-private wooden home with enough room for a fold-down desk, a mini bed and a reading light.
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Source: theguardian.com