Micro Housing: USA Today

choi

Wendy Koch, The Next Big Thing: Mini Apartment. In a world where small is chic and big isn't always better, home sweet home  can mean 250 squre feet. USA Today, July 31, 2013 (front page feature story).
http://www.usatoday.com/story/ne ... -us-cities/2580179/
("Nationwide, the share of households occupied by a single person reached 27% in 2010, up from 8% in 1940 and 18% in 1970. The number exceeds 40% in Atlanta, Cincinnati, Denver, Pittsburgh, Seattle, St. Louis and Washington, according to Census data")

A graphic in print hat does not show up online:

"US Cities May Embrace New York's Tiny, lLss Pricey Apartments[:] Construction will start soon on an experimental New York housing complex in Manhattan, from 250 to 370 square feet each. The prefabricated units, which will rent for $914 to $1,873 per week, aim to help alleviate the city's shortage of less-pricey studios and one-bedroom apartments. As more urban dwellers live alone, other US cities are considering similar solutions.

[panel 2 of the graphic]  Size comparison [the drawing of a "Maximum security prison cell" is about two third of a mini-apartment.

[panel 3 of the graphic is a bar chart]  
NYC apartment price
Average monthly rent:
Two-bedroom.......$3,900
One-bedroom........$2,700
Studio....................$2,000
Micro....................$914-$1,873"


Note:
(a) studio apartment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_apartment
("efficiency" apartments are sometimes smaller than studio apartments)
(b) "billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg — who once lived in a studio for nearly a decade"

Michael Bloomberg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bloomberg
(section 6 Personal life)

choi

I am sorry. There were two typos (short for typographic errors).

"US Cities May Embrace New York's Tiny, lLss Pricey Apartments[:] Construction will start soon on an experimental New York housing complex in Manhattan, from 250 to 370 square feet each. The prefabricated units, which will rent for $914 to $1,873 per week, aim to help alleviate the city's shortage of less-pricey studios and one-bedroom apartments. As more urban dwellers live alone, other US cities are considering similar solutions."

(a) "US Cities May Embrace New York's Tiny, lLss Pricey Apartments"

It should be "Less-Pricey"
(b) "which will rent for $914 to $1,873 per week"

It should be "per month."