People in Los Angeles live in stacked pods to afford rent.

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In a column for the Los Angeles Times, Nita Lelyveld interviews residents of a pod complex in Hollywood, where people pay up to $945 for a sleeping berth.

Here’s the catch: Each single-sex unit is designed to accommodate 18 men or 18 women. Each diminutive bedroom with its private bathroom: four to six adults in small, stacked rectangular spaces called “pods” just wide enough for a mattress and high enough to sit but not stand on top of it.

Not too shabby for someone like Stephen Johnson of San Antonio, who owns just 11 things.

And if you read the column and are curious about the guy who travels with just 11 items, clothing included, here he is telling you what they are. I love this little video. pic.twitter.com/dEF76FMHGp

— Nita Lelyveld (@LATimescitybeat) October 12, 2019

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