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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

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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

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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]

References

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  1. ^ [1] Archived 2013-01-13 at the Wayback Machine, CHPC, Feb 9, 2011.
  2. ^ [2], Making Room symposium, 2011.
  3. ^ [3], New York Times, Jan 22, 2013.
  4. ^ [4], New York Times, May 20, 2013.
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