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

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, a New York City-based research and education organization.

Defining elements

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. 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. 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

The Making Room approach was utilized by

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under the

Mayoralty of Michael Bloomberg The mayoralty of Michael Bloomberg began on January 1, 2002, when Michael Bloomberg was inaugurated as the 108th mayor of New York City, and ended on December 31, 2013. Bloomberg was known as a political pragmatist and for a managerial style t ...

when the city government launched a pilot to develop a building of

microapartment A microapartment, also known as a microflat, is a one-room, self-contained living space, usually purpose built, designed to accommodate a sitting space, sleeping space, bathroom and kitchenette with 14–32 square metres (150–350 sq ft). Unlike ...

s in Kips Bay, Manhattan in response to the growing single population. The Making Room approach was featured in its own museum exhibition at the

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in 2013.
New York Times, May 20, 2013.

Topics

Affordable housing Affordable housing is housing which is deemed affordable to those with a household income at or below the median as rated by the national government or a local government by a recognized housing affordability index. Most of the literature on af ...

Architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing buildings ...

Building code A building code (also building control or building regulations) is a set of rules that specify the standards for constructed objects such as buildings and non-building structures. Buildings must conform to the code to obtain planning permiss ...

Human factors and ergonomics Human factors and ergonomics (commonly referred to as human factors) is the application of psychological and physiological principles to the engineering and design of products, processes, and systems. Four primary goals of human factors learnin ...

* List of housing types *

Workforce housing Workforce housing is a term that is increasingly used by planners, government, and organizations concerned with housing policy or advocacy. It is gaining cachet with realtors, developers and lenders. Workforce housing can refer to any form of hous ...

Zoning Zoning is a method of urban planning in which a municipality or other tier of government divides land into areas called zones, each of which has a set of regulations for new development that differs from other zones. Zones may be defined for a s ...

References

External links

Official site
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