The Observer reports NYC’s Bloomberg Administration’s My Micro NY competition to create a miniature housing model for the city was won by Monandock Development in collaboration with the Actors Fund for Housing Development and modular home builder Capsys, which is based in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Although it is illegal to build a new apartment smaller than 450 square feet, the new program will see modular apartments of 250-375 square feet built on city-owned property in Murray Hill at 335 E. 27th St. As MHProNews has learned, 40 percent of the units will be set aside for low-to-moderate income renters. Says Mayor Bloomberg, “We’ve chosen Manhattan because more than three-quarters of its homes are one or two person households. We already have the population seeking housing for a small number of people, we just don’t have the apartments to house them.”
