The Bay Area's chronic housing shortage forces many renters to double up to afford rent, with creative living solutions becoming a necessity in high-cost cities.
I just wanted to rent enough of the space so I could afford the apartment and not have to eat cup noodles all the time, the 43-year-old said.
The average one-bedroom apartment goes for $2,894 in the San Jose metro and $2,410 in the San Francisco-Oakland metro, highlighting the region's housing crisis.
According to a recent Stanford study, overcrowding has increased among lower-income residents as Bay Area neighborhoods have become wealthier and more expensive.
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