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The historic former Galena Hotel in downtown Aurora could soon hold over 20 micro-unit apartments, which is a new concept for the city. The building at 116 W. Galena Blvd. was constructed in 1862, ...

A stable and connected future for young people could lie in an extremely small-scale intervention. French2D’s first micro-housing project in Boston, 1047 Commonwealth, was completed in 2016. It was ...

Micro-units took off as a rental trend in the Twin Cities roughly a decade ago. They are compact apartments, often railcar-shaped. Their origins are traced to high-density solutions from 1970s Japan. ...

Interior designer Julya Grundberg shows off a fully furnished 325-square-foot studio apartment during an exhibit displaying a transformable "micro-unit" at the Museum of the City of New York January ...

The Aurora City Council approved Tuesday a developer’s plan to rehab the historic Galena Hotel in downtown Aurora into over 20 micro-unit apartments, which is a new concept for the city. Developer ...

New York City ranks among the top major cities in the United States in the number of rental units that are undersized, and nearly half of the units in the pipeline there are planned to be micro units, ...

When Alterra Property Group converted a vintage Center City office tower to apartments in 2015, the 60 micro-units in the Avenir at 1515 South Chestnut St. were a big hit. Despite skepticism from ...

Developer Neighborlee Living, led by Kurt Jetta, won approval from Palm Beach County for a four-story, 38-unit affordable multifamily project with micro-units as small as 240 square feet. The county ...

A new plan to alleviate Houston's affordable housing crisis has the potential to kill two birds with one stone—add cheaper housing options and revitalize downtown's dreary vacant office space. The ...

The building at the corner of West Canon Perdido and Chapala streets in Santa Barbara could be converted into storage units as part of a proposed housing storage project downtown. Credit: Joshua ...