WILD WEST TECH: WWT_2020_0006

Jordan Leigh, a programmer who moved from Chicago to build a sports app, eats dinner and relaxes with his housemates in the communal kitchen at 20 Mission in San Francisco, Calif., in August 2015. The co-living movement has become very popular in the region partially as a solution to the loneliness of modern-day life, the high cost of housing and the large numbers of mostly young people to relocating to the area to participate in the tech boom. The building especially appeals to recent transplants who gain an instant group of friends as soon as they move in.

Jordan Leigh, a programmer who moved from Chicago to build a sports app, eats dinner and relaxes with his housemates in the communal kitchen at 20 Mission in San Francisco, Calif., in August 2015. The co-living movement has become very popular in the region partially as a solution to the loneliness of modern-day life, the high cost of housing and the large numbers of mostly young people to relocating to the area to participate in the tech boom. The building especially appeals to recent transplants who gain an instant group of friends as soon as they move in.