Ms. Johnson was one of the first artists to move to Peekskill after the city zoned its downtown for artists' live-in work lofts.
The place was advertised as a live-work loft.
There is no moat at this live-work loft in SoHo.
Also, the rent on his unimproved live-work loft is only $300, well below many people's winter utility bills.
They are now paying about $1,700 a month for a 1,700-square-foot 1,700-square-foot 1,700-square-foot
The Hat Factory in San Francisco is a live-work loft that's home to three technology workers who open up during the day to other people.
Exit, Pursued by a Bear is not only Mr. Iskandar's theater company, but also the name of his live-work loft, where he and his roommates regularly hold salons with a large roster of New York's young theater artists.
What's more, Mr. Pyner said, the influx of young, often single entrepreneurs, flooding in to occupy live-work loft and studio spaces, is unlikely to ameliorate underlying social problems like the area's failing government-run schools.
Several weeks ago, construction began on 20 live-work condominiums and 5 live-work loft rentals to be ready by next summer, according to Tom McGrath, senior vice president of the Manhattan-based developer CPC Resources.
The competing initiative, Measure L, which is sponsored by artists and neighborhood activists, bans new development in parts of the Mission and South of Market districts, applies an indefinite moratorium on new development in two neighborhoods and other parts of SoMa, and bans so-called live-work loft construction, with far fewer exemptions from the annual growth limit.
But larger developers have used loopholes in the live-work loft laws to put up buildings exempt from certain development taxes that dot-com companies have used for office space only, or affluent renters or buyers have used only for housing.
