Interior designer Julya Grundberg shows off a fully furnished 325-square-foot studio apartment during an exhibit displaying a transformable "micro-unit" at the Museum of the City of New York January ...

Micro-units took off as a rental trend in the Twin Cities roughly a decade ago. They are compact apartments, often railcar-shaped. Their origins are traced to high-density solutions from 1970s Japan. ...

Los Angeles is usually a leader in housing innovation, but when it comes to welcoming “micro-units,” the country’s second largest city trails behind cities such as Seattle, San Francisco and New York.

Beyond the notion of a tiny apartment, the concept asks designers and developers to dive deep into what turns a space into a home. Twenty years ago, the idea of a micro unit probably wouldn’t have ...

Micro Luxury: Olympic Lofts in Santa Monica measure 400 square feet. Micro-units, those shoebox-sized apartments that have long been part of New York’s rental market, are making their way to L.A. And ...

A University of Minnesota neighborhood could see more tiny apartments – a trend mirroring the Twin Cities as a whole. Marcy-Holmes’ newest tiny apartments, also known as micro-units, are currently ...