Long Beach moves ahead with plan to allow 500 ‘micro-units’ to help tackle housing shortage

Long Beach moves ahead with plan to allow 500 ‘micro-units’ to help tackle housing shortage Long Beach moves ahead with plan to allow 500 ‘micro-units’ to help tackle housing shortage

A picture of a studio apartment at Pasadena’s Aqua Courtyard and Suites, one of the city’s two micro-unit apartment complexes. (Courtesy city of Pasadena) Apartment units — or possibly even condos — as small as 220 square feet could soon be coming to Long Beach. The Planning Commission approved at its Thursday, Sept. 3, meeting a pilot program that would allow developers to build up to 500 “micro-units” in the city’s Downtown and Midtown neighborhoods as one way to address the area’s housing shortage. Currently, housing units in those neighborhoods must be at least 600 square feet. Projects approved under the program could instead be as small as 220…

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