# 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)](/source/Citizens_Housing_and_Planning_Council_(CHPC)), a New York City-based research and education organization.

## Defining elements

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](/source/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

The Making Room approach was utilized by [New York City](/source/New_York_City) under the [Mayoralty of Michael Bloomberg](/source/Mayoralty_of_Michael_Bloomberg) when the city government launched a pilot to develop a building of [microapartments](/source/Microapartment) in [Kips Bay, Manhattan](/source/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](/source/Museum_of_the_City_of_New_York) in 2013.[4]

### Topics

- [Affordable housing](/source/Affordable_housing)
- [Architecture](/source/Architecture)
- [Building code](/source/Building_code)
- [Human factors and ergonomics](/source/Human_factors_and_ergonomics)
- [List of housing types](/source/List_of_housing_types)
- [Workforce housing](/source/Workforce_housing)
- [Zoning](/source/Zoning)

## References

1. [\[1\]](http://www.chpcny.org/2011/02/where-do-the-different-household-types-live-in-nyc/) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20130113085353/http://www.chpcny.org/2011/02/where-do-the-different-household-types-live-in-nyc/) 2013-01-13 at the Wayback Machine, CHPC, Feb 9, 2011.

1. [\[2\]](http://makingroomnyc.com/category/design-proposals/), Making Room symposium, 2011.

1. [\[3\]](http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/22/city-unveils-winner-of-tiny-apartment-competition/), New York Times, Jan 22, 2013.

1. [\[4\]](https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/21/nyregion/gulliver-seeks-rental-the-newfound-fascination-with-tiny-dwellings.html), New York Times, May 20, 2013.

## External links

- [Official site](http://www.makingroomnyc.org)[dead link]

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