In June 2017, when Ujval Reddy, an engineering graduate from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, moved to Palo Alto in California to join Tesla as a full-time employee, the Hyderabad native was worried just about one thing — where to find an affordable place to live.
When he’d moved a year earlier to work as an intern at Tesla for 15 weeks, he lived in what is known as a hacker house: it had 16 people crammed into four rooms.