Who’d Live Here? Micro-Units and NYC Housing Needs

Jerilyn Perine, executive director of the Citizens Housing and Planning Council (CHPC) and former Housing Commissioner for Bloomberg and Rudy Giuliani, has been thinking about the problem for some time. In 2011, CHPC launched an initiative called Making Room to engage architects from all over the world in troubleshooting city’s limited housing market. That project had considerable influence on the city’s new micro-unit proposal.