Renting
Airbnb, Not in NYC
CNET reports that NYC officials have determined that Warren should pay $2,400 for “violating the city’s illegal hotel law” and that apartments “may only be used as private residences and may not be rented for transient, hotel, or motel purposes” essentially making Airbnb illegal in New York (except for stays of 30 days or longer).
Charting Your Percentages of Pay Spent on Housing Responses
The percentage of your take-home pay you spend on housing.
Pro: There’s a Place to Hang Clothes. Con: Everything Else
The staff at Tumblr linked to some of their favorite blogs of the moment, and one of them is called “THE WORST ROOM”—a blog about “trying to find affordable housing in New York City” but is really a blog about some of the saddest rooms for rent on the market for crazy amounts of money. One thousand dollars a month to live in someone’s walk-in closet! Is there any air circulation? Who knows!? My stars.
What Percentage of Your Pay Do You Spend on Rent?
Jumping off from my previous WWYD column, I woke up this morning to find a bunch of messages on Twitter from some fine folks discussing what percentage of their income they spend on rent.
Places I’ve Lived: A Whole Lot of Campus Apartments
Three years of student housing to coincide with my last three years of undergrad. We were packed in like sardines and the walls were so thin we could hear the people across the hall sometimes, but it was a ton of fun.
Residents and Developers Clash Over Microhousing in Seattle
The Stranger has a nice in-depth, 6,000-word story on the developers who are building affordable microhousing units in Seattle, and the residents who are fighting against it.
Why Renting an Apartment in NYC Sucks
The Verge has a great story about New York apartment rentals and a new startup that is trying to disrupt the market.
The Chelsea of New Orleans? (French Quarter) The Queens of LA? (Venice)
The Morning News has a collection of New York neighborhoods and their equivalents in cities around the country and the world submitted by some excellent people around the web. This list was all I ever wanted every time I moved or travelled.
The People Behind the Microstudios
In Harvard Magazine, the architects who won New York City’s “microstudio” competition explain how they came up with their concept.
