Re:How Seattle Killed Micro-Housing
by zacharycohn on Friday September 09, 2016 @09:20AM
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There is a high end product. I don't need a high end product, but that's all there is. So I have to go for it.
Suddenly, there's a cheaper, lower end product that meets my needs. I go for that, someone who needs or wants the higher end product can go for that.
The point is that for many decades the low end product was something like a one bedroom with a kitchen. Now that's being seen as a luxury that we need to build under.
Re:How Seattle Killed Micro-Housing
by OrwellianChild on Friday September 09, 2016 @07:59PM
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If families are already living in too-small housing arrangements like studio apartments, wouldn't this be because they could not afford larger accommodations? This is actually a sign that more housing needs to be build at the high and the low end.
The article is not saying "build micro-apartments instead of normal ones". It is saying "make it possible to build micro-apartments alongside normal ones".
We also already have cheaper alternatives in e.g. studio apartments, and we currently have families living in those.
I don't see how building downwards will solve these problems in a decent way going forward--it seems that it could only continually reduce peoples' living conditions.