Charleston considering bringing ‘micro-units’ to help address affordable housing shortage
“The City of Charleston is considering a change that could bring smaller apartments to the area, but there’s a catch: you won’t have a parking spot.
The city says it needs to build over 16,000 affordable housing units in the next 10 years to keep up with demand.
Councilmember Ross Appel says bringing micro-units to the city could put a dent in that number.
‘These micro-units are not going to be for everybody, but they’ll be for some people,’ Appel said. ‘We need to keep innovating and coming up with ways that we can facilitate additional density while also making sure that we balance all of the other important issues.'”