Can microapartments be the answer to HMOs proliferating in areas of 'family' housing? Or does preventing the development of smaller homes push residents into HMO sector? Whatever, HMO in the news again, this time in Liverpool:
#microapartment #floorplan #HMO #planning www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Another local authority has decided to adopt space standards: "even one square metre could make a difference to young parents with a pram." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"In just two years, the proportion of co-location applications [that include industrial use] alongside purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) and co-living formats has jumped from near-zero to one in every two applications submitted" in Ldn www.showhouse.co.uk/co-location-...

Tim White on the European housing crisis: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Soviet Union post-war housing

above: 1 room (with seperate kitchen) ≈32 m2
below: 2 rooms (with separate kitchen) ≈ 40m2

both dual aspect for daylight & ventilation, & having separate kitchens with windows

This is *better* standard than what’s planned for Ireland in 2025 #housing

Opposition parties have rounded on plans by Housing Minister James Browne to reduce apartment sizes and community spaces as a way of cutting the cost of construction, saying that the plan has been tried before and failed.

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Student housing markets looking less stable than in recent past. Post-2030, will much of the student accommodation convert to non-student occupation? And what will that mean for liveability - this accommodation was only designed for term-time occupancy. www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/student...

Welcoming @iliana.ortega.alcazar to the ESRC small homes project, on a hot day in Ldn. #smallhouseliving #smallhousung #urbangeography #sheffieldgeography #kingscollegelondon

Brilliant to come together as a team on Friday, led by @gypjh2000.bsky.social

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@gypjh2000.bsky.social speaking about housing for students and space standards in HMOs next week in RSA webinar on legal geography lounge.regionalstudies.org/Meetings/Mee...

i've written on Brexit and identity, and food / class relations so i was genuinely interested to read this. But as a journal editor myself, and 100+ papers into my career, I've edited, and possibly written, more bad papers than you've had chip takeaways. But this paper is both bad and offensive!

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