Mayor Bloomberg launches contest to stir development of tiny 300-square-foot apartments for singles - would you live in one?
Quietman ~PWCM~JLA
2012/07/10 18:29:26
|
|
|||||
|
1 vote
|
|
20% | |||
|
2 votes
|
|
40% | |||
|
2 votes
|
|
40% | |||
The new closetlike flats will be just 275 to 300 square feet — larger than a jail cell but smaller than a mobile home — and will have special permission to ignore city rules requiring newly built apartments to exceed 400 square feet.
“The city’s demographics have changed,” Bloomberg said. “It used to be the average household was a family, a couple of adults and some children.”
That meant that the city was filled with larger dwellings, leaving just 1 million studios and one bedrooms — not nearly enough for the 1.8 million one-and two-person households.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/mike-pushes-smaller-apts-...
Sort By
- JanHopkins 2012/07/11 05:55:27No
+1Sounds like a luxury slave ship cruise.reply - ParkMan 2012/07/11 02:59:14No+1No - something that small would just drive me nuts.reply
- Schläue~© 2012/07/10 19:05:17Yes+1My 5th-wheel is 320 sq. ft., quite comfy and I guess something like that could work in the rotten apple.reply
- Grabitz 2012/07/10 18:47:31Undecided+1To small for me . For some I guess it would be OK .reply
- NPC 2012/07/10 18:33:44Undecided+1Bloomberg is another Assclown politician. Wish he would disappear.reply
