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Tech workers find communal living a solution for high rents

Negev properties are restructured to accommodate a large number of tenants

A virtual reality engineer, a software engineer and a software engineer, who are residents of The Negev tech house, during a Sunday ‘family’ dinner in San Francisco, California. Photo: Reuters
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A virtual reality engineer, a software engineer and a software engineer, who are residents of The Negev tech house, during a Sunday ‘family’ dinner in San Francisco, California. Photo: Reuters

Gabrielle Lurie & Melissa Fares | Reuters
Zander Dejah, 25, pays $1,900 a month rent to live in a downtown San Francisco house with at least 40 other people, many of whom sleep in bunk beds.
 
Dejah is a resident of The Negev, a communal living space that styles itself as a home for millennial tech workers to brainstorm ideas, write code and create apps, even if they have to share toilets and bathrooms with dozens of others.
 
Houses like The Negev, located in a neighbourhood known as “SoMa” or South of Market, have cropped up around San Francisco as an influx of young professionals,