Dive Summary:
- Jim Potter, a developer working in Seattle through his company Footprint, has built 465 micro-apartments for the city and plans to build more to compete in the temporary housing market.
- Potter's units are as small as 190 square feet, catering to tech company workers moving to the area to work for places like Google and Amazon.com, the latter of which Potter says rents 80,000 bed nights every year in the city.
- Potter's projects have run into problems with residents, however, who complain that they have found ways to avoid tradition design review processes before being built.
From the article:
... The average resident is in his or her mid-30s, Potter said. Three-quarters of them are service workers – cooks, food servers, baristas and others who don’t make a lot of money. About a fifth are students. Smaller slivers of the resident population are retirees and those who live outside of the city but want a place to stay during the week. ...
