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2022-05-13

A California startup is offering cocoon-like pods to allow 14 residents to share a single house as an escape from soaring rents and real estate prices

A California startup is offering cocoon-like pods

The cocoon-like quarters include power outlets, fold-down desks, lighting, and fans and are more significant than similar capsules in some Japanese hotels.

As rents and home prices soar, one California co-living startup offers a novel sleeping-pod design to fit more residents into a single-family house.

Brownstone Shared Housing has two locations: the first is just minutes from Stanford University in Palo Alto and houses 14, while the second sleeps 6 in central Bakersfield.

“We started with how can we house as many people as possible in an existing space in a way that preserves dignity and comfort and privacy,” CEO James Stallworth, who co-founded the self-financed Brownstone with Christina Lennox, said in an interview with Insider.

This article was published on Business Insider by Dominick Reuter.