Making Room
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Making Room is an approach to housing policy that seeks to match a city's housing stock with the needs of its households. It was coined in 2009 by Citizens Housing and Planning Council (CHPC), a New York City-based research and education organization.
Defining elements
[edit]The Making Room approach comprises four key areas of scrutiny:
1) How a city's population is really grouping itself into households; breaking with the traditional methodology that connotes household with family.[1] 2) The type of people that a city hopes to attract in the future, and their likely lifestyles and housing needs. 3) Best Practice regarding the design of homes and apartments seen across the world.[2] 4) The revision of possible zoning, planning, subsidy, building code controls so that the development of certain housing models is allowed and encouraged.
Examples and impact
[edit]The Making Room approach was utilized by New York City under the Mayoralty of Michael Bloomberg when the city government launched a pilot to develop a building of microapartments in Kips Bay, Manhattan in response to the growing single population.[3]
The Making Room approach was featured in its own museum exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York in 2013.[4]
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