Last week, the Guardian covered the “re-branding” of the Bay Area’s Buckingham Apartments and the resulting evictions. It’s a painful article that paints the human cost of one real estate developer’s work.
Microapartments — loosely defined as units smaller than 400 square feet — are rapidly becoming a reality of urban residential development. And the rationale for them is clear. More Americans — many of them single — want to live in cities. And there is significant public and regulatory…
There has been a lot of debate about NYC’s first microapartment project, which opened earlier this summer in Murray Hill. The cost of these units — which is roughly on par with full-sized studio apartments in the neighborhood — has generated a mix of confusion, disgust…
