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microhousing

microhousing noun: affordable housing in small apartments.

Noun

microhousing (uncountable)

  1. Affordable housing in small apartments.
    • While there’s no reliable data on micro-housing, some notable policies and projects are popping up on that front too. Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg waived the city’s zoning standards to allow micro-apartments.2016 December 28, Dan Hernandez, “Is an even smaller New York apartment the key to sustainable living?”, in The Guardian
    • “All the technologies I describe in my novel already exist,” she said. “Automised job appraisals, AI-generated scripts, micro-housing, the coupling of surveillance and insurance, the burning council estates: it’s all already here. You just have to look at it and join the dots.”2019 June 30, Philip Oltermann, quoting Sibylle Berg, “German sci-fi fans lap up dystopian tales of Brexit Britain”, in The Guardian

Forms of microhousing

alternative formmicro-housing

Origin of microhousing

From micro- + housing.

Questions about microhousing

What does microhousing mean?
Microhousing means affordable housing in small apartments.
What part of speech is microhousing?
Microhousing is a noun.

Words near microhousing in the dictionary

  1. microhook
  2. microhooks
  3. microhotplate
  4. microhouse
  5. microhouses
  6. microhousing
  7. microhybrid
  8. microhybrids
  9. microhydranencephaly
  10. microhydraulic
  11. microhydro

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