Apt. rents $8/foot

[Francis Vineyard]

and it's small;

San Francisco may soon give new meaning to the word "downsizing."



Supervisors are set to vote on Tuesday on a proposed change to the city's building code that would allow construction of among the tiniest apartments in the country.



Under the plan, new apartments could be as small as 220 square feet (a little more than double the size of some prison cells), including a kitchen, bathroom and closet, the Los Angeles Times reported.



Current regulations require the living room alone to be that size.



Schematics for 300-square-foot units planned for San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood include window seats that turn into spare beds and beds that turn into tables.



Proponents say the smaller apartments would provide a cheaper option for the city's many single residents, who have been priced out of the rental market as the region experiences a resurgent technology industry.

Read more: San Francisco to vote on apartments the size of two prison cells



Francis

 

[brudgers]

Viable so long as offstreet parking isn't required...then the economics start to become a problem.

 

[ewenme]

SF must have modified the IBC, like all of CA so it's the CBC. Have they modified the "efficiency dwelling minimum square footages" required? Efficiencies need 220 sq. ft. as the size for one room, plus closet, bathroom and kitchen area. Sounds like 220 sq. ft total is on the extreme side, even for efficiency units. IMHO

 

[pyrguy]

There was an apartment on the news this morning. It was in London, if I heard it right, and had offers of over $200,000. It measured 8.5 X 10 feet.

 

[Paul Sweet]

100 x 100 - Photographs of residents in their flats in Hong Kong's oldest public housing estate - 100 rooms, each 100 square feet in size.

MICHAEL WOLF | PHOTOGRAPHY | HONGKONG

 

[Francis Vineyard]

An immigrant asked recently "why do the apartments have to be bigger; is it because Americans are bigger?"

Francis