APARTMENTS IN NYC FOR RENT-TINY, YOU CARE?

CAN YOU LIVE IN A COMPACT /TINY APT. (ABOUT THE SIZE OF 2 PARKING SPACES) JUST TO LIVE IN NYC?

MAYOR MICHAEL BLOOMBERG SAYS, "WHY NOT?"

 ( I believe the rents are in the $2000.00-$2700.00  range)

Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Monday invited developers to propose ways to turn a Manhattan lot into an apartment building filled mostly with what officials are calling "micro-units" — 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 living room.
If the pilot program is successful, officials could ultimately overturn a requirement established in 1987 that new apartments here be at least 400 square feet.

For critics assuming this is an askew version of tenement living, modern-day building codes and improved refrigeration and public health have changed what it means to live small, Bloomberg said. A typical mid-19th century tenement apartment on Manhattan's Lower East Side might have been larger than one of the micro-units, measuring 325 square feet, but would have typically housed families with multiple children. The micro-units are to be leased only to one- or two-person households.

WE'RE NOT ALONE IN THIS CONCEPT

In places within the US & abroad the concept is certainly not innovative.

Similar programs have been proposed in other cities. In San Francisco, developers are seeking permission to rent out apartments as small as 150 square feet.

The home pictured above is 344 sq. ft. and shared by a couple and their adult daughter (that's a bedroom on the top left!) in Japan.