On Microapartments

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…

Five Learnings from Common’s First Coliving Home

Housing for life lived on the edge

I’ve spent the last couple weeks researching residential hotels for a client. You might know the…

The president that sprawl wrought

It’s more than a bit ironic that Trump is from Queens. If assessed as an entity separate from the…

Rebranding the SRO

“Wan Rūmu Manshon” — that’s what they call an SRO in Japan. They are tiny, affordable rooms for singles who don’t need or want much more than a place to lay their heads. The name is not derived from Japanese words, but rather it’s the Japanization of the English phrase “One Room Mansion.”