This apartment will be considered opulence for the working class by 2050

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2. Bloomberg wants lots of people living in 275-sq foot apartments

Mayor Bloomberg launched a contest Monday to stir development of teeny-tiny apartments — called micro units — for young singles willing to cram themselves into shoebox-sized digs.

The new closetlike flats will be just 275 to 300 square feet — larger than a jail cell but smaller than a mobile home — and will have special permission to ignore city rules requiring newly built apartments to exceed 400 square feet...

This will be the new norm - work 12 hour days, live in a 275 square foot apartment, slave until they put you in a costly hospice to die.

All so Bloomberg and his business and corporate cronies can live in 80,000 square foot houses, own tropical islands and have two SUV's idling on the corner waiting to take them for their ride on the subway.

http://perdidostreetschool.blogspot.com/2012/07/bloomberg-wants-lots-of-people-living.html


there's a reason these micro-living arrangements are getting so much play lately, and it ain't the environment -- it's because the rentier class wants to bust existing zoning laws to develop these little iceboxes and charge more per square food than for traditional apartments.

not to mention that a significant fraction of the working class, having been denuded of a lot of their $$ in the real estate bust, can't afford traditional housing.