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Real Estate
 Brian Miller Real Estate Editor |
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March 9, 2017
On the Block: Is Minnie Flats the future of workforce housing?
Kelten Johnson of Johnson & Carr is giving us a tour of Minnie Flats, at 101 Denny Way, which opened in December at the sharp intersection of First Avenue. So I ask him, what do we call apartments like these: Apodments? Small efficiency dwelling units (or SEDUs)? Micro-housing? What?
Johnson just rolls his eyes at the question, having given up on the approved land-use terminology, and says, “I just call it workforce housing.”
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