[C19fan]

Looks like Bloomberg finally has a sensible idea. If I was young and single and had an opportunity to work and live in Manhattan I would take one of these apartments in a New York minute. All one needs is a place to sleep because you are either at work or out on the town.

[Vaquero]

maybe an apartment as big as a big gulp...eh Bloomie?

[BillyBonebrake]

I’m reminded of “The Physiology of New York Boarding Houses” which is one very funny book and is a good reflection on how the NYC housing problem was tackled in the mid 19th century.

[1_Rain_Drop]

Micro apts? stupid idea. I wonder what the rent would be.
For single rooms, there are hotels like the Chelsea Hotel. Then there’s the YMCA.

Bloomberg, How about getting rid of “rent control”. Those people pay about $300 a month for a six room apartment. The “Rent Stabilized” people pay high rents to compensate for those low rents.

How about taking care of those vacant buildings owned by NYC.

[rawhide]

15’x20’ or 10’x30’. Seems okay to me for a single or even a couple. I have an RV I travel in, so I am used to living in a small space. 300 sq ft is bigger than many RV’s.

[CanuckYank]

More Libinsane “progress”, along with toxic light bulbs, disease spreading re-usable shopping bags, sky rocketing energy costs, higher taxes, more gun control, bird killing wind generators, bankrupt solar panel companies and my personal favorite, the “no water using”, stinky male urinals being rolled out in all gubmint and other public restrooms. I just love standing there smelling the last hundred patrons’ collective urine odors.

Yup, let’s hear it for societal progress and enlightenment thx to your neighborhood Libtard.

[A_Tradition_Continues]

Now we know the real reason for limiting soft drinks to 16oz...it’s not only fewer calories but space saving too.

[chessplayer]

What will be the rent? Two thousand,,,three thousand a month?

[Phlap]

And the miniscule living quarters don’t come cheap: most renters are currently facing average market-rate rents of $2,000 per month for a studio and $2,700 per month for a one-bedroom.

Housing Preservation and Development Commissioner Mathew Wambua said he expected the micro-units would rent for significantly less.

Only if you are Charlie Rangel. lol

[Ditter]

Where would I put my “stuff”?

[kidd]

As an isolated unit here and there, a micro apartment is fine. It meets a market demand.

But to have an entire building of micro apartments is a disaster.

It wouldn’t take much for a building of micro apartments to become a brothel, a drug den, a place for single moms with multiple irresponsible children, etc.

[Arrowhead1952]

They could go this route.

[Parmy]

Give me land, lots of land beneath the starry skies. Don’t fence me in. Let me ride the wide open spaces, don’t fence me in.

[RegulatorCountry]

If there were a lot of built in storage areas and it was quality construction like the cabin of a sailboat it wouldn’t have to be awful, for a single person. Cost per square foot would be very high for construction alone, though, even without it being in Manhattan.

[hedgetrimmer]

Bloombergs plan is breathless, in its Marxism.

Why don't you want to let free enterprise solve the housing problem?

BTW, this tack has already been taken in communist run Hong Kong. You think it can't happen in America, but with a Marxist president and a Marxist mayor of New York, you betcha it will come to this:":


Yan Chi Keung eats takeaway outside his wire cage home -

Workforce housing

Different cities same communist concept

[SES1066]

Somehow I am reminded of Bruce Willis' home in the film, "Fifth Element" as seen below;

And a New York full of these apartments...

[central_va]

Senior living floor plan 300 sq ft:

[COBOL2Java]

Modular studio apartments for Japanese students

[MasterGunner01]

Yeah, “micro” 300 sq. ft. quarters rented at MACRO rents. Why do people want to live in NYC?.