Student life for the rest of your life
If you think you’ve had the worst of the Tiny House Terror, such a developer will come along to Amsterdamsify the concept. It simply stacks a number of those small huts on top of each other so that a “micro-apartment complex” is created with living quarters of 46 square meters (smaller was not allowed, ed.) where people share their living room and sleep in a wall cupboard. Sorry, of course we mean a box bed. without embarrassment, they ask 1,400 euros per month for this spacious broom cupboard, plus 90 euros in service costs, which is more than 32 euros per square meter and is therefore considerably higher than the average Amsterdam rent. So micro-housing is not cheap, but with recent price increases it may be the only remaining option to stay in the capital. Everyone in adult student residences. Sharing showers saves money. We are now waiting for nano-housing: bioindustry for blue-collar meat. Sleeping standing up, sharing a toilet with three hundred neighbors and storage space for one folded laptop, but nice and close to the center. You have no space and are happy. The Amsterdam housing market: we can’t make it nicer, but we can make it smaller.
