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Microunits
Following are all UrbanTurf articles filed under Microunits, from most recent to least.
Underground Bunk Beds? San Francisco Project Takes New Approach to Affordable Housing
Nena Perry-Brown | January 17th 2020
A proposed development in San Francisco's Mission District is taking a unique approach toward easing the city's affordable housing crisis. ... read »
52-Room Boutique Micro-Hotel Proposed Near Dupont Circle
Nena Perry-Brown | July 10th 2018
A boutique hotel with fairly small rooms is being floated for a commercial strip in Dupont Circle, UrbanTurf has learned. ... read »
Co-living Company Moves Forward with Second DC Location in Chinatown
Nena Perry-Brown | October 2nd 2017
Nearly six months after debuting its first DC co-living concept in the Truxton Circle area, Common will soon open a second location in the District... read »
A Time-Out for the Church Street Micro-Units
Nena Perry-Brown | May 23rd 2017
Last fall's revised zoning regulations that offer considerable relief from mandatory parking minimums have put a hold on a 37-unit micro-unit... read »
209 Square Feet: Inside DC’s Smallest Home For Sale
Nena Perry-Brown | September 27th 2016
The DC housing market keeps surprising UrbanTurf with ever-smaller units for sale. A recent entrant on the market, a studio in Columbia Heights,... read »
The Littlest Loft: 40 Square Feet for $450 a Month
Nena Perry-Brown | September 16th 2016 | 1 Comment
This Brooklyn crawl space-for-rent takes small living arrangement concepts to their extreme. ... read »
The Motorized Modular Furniture Meant For Micro-Units
Nena Perry-Brown | July 15th 2016
An MIT Media Lab alum has teamed up with furniture designer Yves Béhar to deliver mechanized furniture modules to micro-units everywhere in early... read »
A Nice Place For a Sleepover: The Ups and Downs of a Night in a Micro-Unit
Nena Perry-Brown | June 13th 2016
A New York Times reporter recently spent one night in Carmel Place, New York City's first micro-apartment development. ... read »
264 Square Feet: A Look at DC’s Smallest Home on the Market
Nena Perry-Brown | May 17th 2016
The smallest listing on the market in DC right now is a 264 square-foot studio condominium just south of Missouri Avenue, a micro-unit that came... read »
A Look Inside NYC’s First Micro-Unit
UrbanTurf Staff | November 13th 2015
New York Magazine recently published photos of one of the 300 square-foot units. ... read »
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UrbanTurf did some digging to find the five neighborhoods in DC where the inventory... read »
A mash-up between Mayberry and turn-of-the-century Georgetown, this Potomac basement ... read »
The proposed building would include a mix of market-rate and senior affordable units.... read »
The first "reopening" phase would coincide with that of Northern Virginia.... read »
Mayor Bowser announced today that the speed limit for many local roads will drop from... read »
- The 5 DC Neighborhoods With Less Than a Month's Supply of Homes For Sale
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- 222 Apartments Proposed to Redevelop Church Site in Southwest DC
- DC Mayor to Lift City's Stay-at-Home Order on Friday
- 20 is Plenty: DC Will Lower Speed Limit on Local Roads
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First-Timer Primers
Intro guides for first-time home buyers
Northern Virginia
Profiles of 14 neighborhoods across Northern Virginia
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Ballston
Looking to Give People A Reason to Stay Past 6pm
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Clarendon
Happily Straddling the Line Between City and Suburb
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Columbia Pike
Arlington’s Neglected Stepchild is Getting a Makeover
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Crystal City
Turning Lemons into Lemonade
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Lyon Village
Developing An Air of Exclusivity?
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Rosslyn
Hitting Its Growth Spurt
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Shirlington
An Urban Village Hitting Its Stride
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Del Ray
Virginia’s Small Town Near the Big City
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Eisenhower Avenue
The Vibrancy Might Take a Few Years
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Huntington
The Quiet Neighborhood By the Beltway
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Old Town
Mayberry By The Potomac
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Parkfairfax
132 Commerical-Free Acres
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Downtown Falls Church
Staying the Same in the Midst of Change
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Tysons Corner
Radical Change Could Be On The Way
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Maryland
Profiles of 14 neighborhoods in suburban Maryland
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Annapolis
Small-Town Living in the State Capital
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Bethesda
Bedroom Community Gets Buzzing Cache
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Cabin John
In With The New While Maintaining the Old
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Chevy Chase
Affluence, Green Lawns and Pricey Homes
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Downtown Silver Spring
Experiencing a Resurgence After a Bumpy History
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Potomac
A Suburb on Steroids
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Rockville Town Square
Despite the Dynamism, Still Somewhat Generic
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Takoma Park
More Than a Little Bit Quirky
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Wheaton
A Foodie Magnet on the Verge of Change
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Capitol Heights
Kudzu, Front Porches and Crime
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Hyattsville
Glass Half Full or Half Empty?
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Mount Rainier
Artists, Affordable Homes and A Silo Full of Corn
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National Harbor
A Development Rises Next to the Potomac
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Riverdale Park
A Town Looking For Its Identity
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Northwest DC
30+ neighborhood profiles for the city's biggest quadrant
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16th Street Heights
DC's Sleeper Neighborhood
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Bloomingdale
Where (Almost) Everyone Knows Your Name
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AU Park
One of DC’s Last Frontiers Before the Suburbs
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Brightwood
DC’s Northern Neighborhood on the Cusp
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Burleith
DC’s 535 House Neighborhood
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Cathedral Heights
Do You Know Where That Is?
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Chevy Chase DC
Not to Be Confused With the Other Chevy Chase
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Cleveland Park
Coming Back After A Rough Year
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Columbia Heights
DC’s Most Diverse Neighborhood, But For How Long?
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Crestwood
An Island of Serenity East of the Park
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Dupont Circle
The Best of DC (For a Price)
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Foggy Bottom & West End
Where the Institutional Meets the International
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Forest Hills
Ambassadors and Adventurous Architecture
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Foxhall Village
350 Homes Just West of Georgetown
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Friendship Heights
A Shopping Mecca With a Few Places to Live
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Georgetown
History, Hoyas and H&M
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Glover Park
One of DC’s Preppier and More Family-Friendly Neighborhoods
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Kalorama
A Posh View From Embassy Row
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LeDroit Park
A Quiet Enclave in the Middle of the City
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Logan Circle
Trendy Now, But Not By Accident
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Mount Pleasant
Sought-After Homes Surround Main Street in Transition
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Mount Vernon Triangle
From Seedy to Sought-After
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Palisades
The Long, Skinny Neighborhood at the City’s Northwest Edge
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Park View
It’s Not Petworth
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Penn Quarter/Chinatown
DC’s Go-Go-Go Neighborhood
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Petworth
Getting a Vibrancy of Its Own
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Shaw
The Duke’s Former Stomping Ground
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Shepherd Park
DC’s Garden of Diversity
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Spring Valley
A Suburb With a DC Zip Code
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Takoma
Not To Be Confused With Takoma Park
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Tenleytown
Not Quite Like Its Neighbors
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U Street Corridor
The Difference a Decade Makes
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Woodley Park
Deceptively Residential
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Adams Morgan
No Longer DC’s Hippest Neighborhood, But Still Loved by Residents
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Southwest DC
The little quadrant that could
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Southwest Waterfront
A Neighborhood Where A Change Is Gonna Come
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Northeast DC
Profiles of 10 neighborhoods in NE
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Brookland
New Development Could Shake Up Pastoral Peace
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Deanwood
A Little Bit of Country Just Inside the District’s Borders
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Eckington
Not to Be Confused With Bloomingdale
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Fort Totten
Five Years Could Make a Big Difference
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H Street
A Place To Party, and To Settle Down
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Langdon
The Northeast Neighborhood That Few Know About
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Michigan Park
A Newsletter-On-Your-Doorstep Community
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NoMa
Evolving from a Brand to a Neighborhood
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Rosedale
Ripe for Investment Right About Now
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Trinidad
The Difference 5 Years Makes
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Woodridge
Big Houses, A Dusty Commercial Strip and Potential
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Southeast DC
6 neighborhoods from Capitol Hill to East of the River
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Capitol Riverfront
Still Growing
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Hill East
Capitol Hill’s Lesser Known Neighbor
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Congress Heights
Gradually Rising
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Hillcrest
Notable for Its Neighborliness
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Historic Anacostia
Future Promise Breeds Cautious Optimism
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Eastern Market
A More European Way of Living
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Off the Beaten Turf
Overlooked parks, shops, cafes, and miscellany throughout DC
Unique Spaces
Awesome and unusual real estate from across the DC Metro
