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Lplate
Posts: 4737
Incept: 2008-08-06
Australia
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Quote:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nocookie....
July 10, 2012
City planners believe tiny 30-square-metre units could be the answer to a growing population of singles and two-person households in Manhattan.
MAYOR Michael Bloomberg on Monday invited developers to propose apartment buildings filled mostly with micro dwellings complete with a bathroom, built-in kitchenette and enough space for a careful planner to use a fold-out bed as both sleeping space and lounge room.
If the pilot program is successful, officials could ultimately overturn a requirement that new apartments be at least 37 square metres.
City planners envision a future in which the young, the cash-poor and empty nesters flock to such small dwellings - each not much bigger than a dorm room.
In a pricey real estate market where about one-third of renter households spend more than half their income on rent, it could make housing more affordable.
Manhattan is the US capital of solo living, with 46.3 per cent of households consisting of one person, according to the 2010 census.
City officials estimate that 76 per cent of residents on the island live alone or with one other person - and such households are growing faster around the city than any other type of living.
Officials attribute the trend in part to young professionals delaying both marriage and childbearing.
More people in the US are living alone than ever before. The solo living rate rose to almost 27 per cent in 2010, according to the census...
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Mayorquimby
Posts: 13916
Incept: 2008-09-18
The Archaic Past
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Complete with candy dishes filled with Wellbutrin.
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Lumpeninvestor
Posts: 2371
Incept: 2007-10-16
98072, USSA
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Grace
Posts: 526
Incept: 2008-10-15
upstate new york
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They already have those in NYC; it's called a studio apartment.
I had one for two years about 10 years ago....for $1500 per month on the upper east side. Lumpen, you only get a half-size refrigerator that fits under the counter...
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Ben
Posts: 6408
Incept: 2009-10-09
The Distant, Glorious, Past
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Manhattan apartments used to (still?) have security bars on the door. You lock all the deadbolts, door locks, chain locks, etc.
Then, you place a 3 or 4 foot steel rod into a notch in the floor and into a cusp in the door to prevent the door from being knocked down. In effect you jam the door shut from the inside.
Yep, that's how unsafe it was.
The Lower East Side looked like Beirut, no exaggeration. I have walked down rubble strewn streets, windows of squatting apartment blocks either broken, knocked out or stolen, no power to the building, people illegally tapping into ConEd to power their illegally occupied apartments, and burned out cars and piles of debris, rubble and bricks lying in the road.
It looked like a War Zone.
It is difficult to describe to people what NYC was like in the 70's and early 1980's...
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Jotapay
Posts: 16839
Incept: 2008-08-26
Tx
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I was thinking about moving to NYC about 6 years ago and applying for a job at Pershing, Fidelity or some other company in the financial services business with whom I had worked in a partnership capacity, working on their databases and systems.
I'm really glad I didn't. My living conditions in Austin are so much better. I live on almost a half acre, underneath the canopy of 15 Live Oak trees, some of which are 100 years old. In NYC I'd probably be living in a unit about 500'^2 in size. I literally have 3.5 times the inside living area and about 35 times the total living space for about the same money. When you look at the numbers there literally is just no comparison.
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Mpilar
Posts: 5828
Incept: 2009-01-05
Nashville, TN
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300 sq ft apartments are nothing new in major cities, at least in many parts of the world. My 'fairly large' apartment in Prague was only 560 sq ft (52m2). Studios were single room (combined kitchen, living, bedroom) and a bathroom that were under 300 sq ft typically. Quote:When you look at the numbers there literally is just no comparison. Yup...Nobody could pay me enough money to move back into a major city.
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