The housing shortage in crowded urban areas has led to ever smaller domiciles known as micro-units. Even smaller ones are sometimes called nano units or gnat flats. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Micro-Housing Words”
Gnat flat. Do you know what a gnat flat is? G-N-A-T flat?
A gnat flat? Is that when you sunbathe in the nude and you give them a big target of your behind?
I don’t know.
A nat flat is a really tiny apartment in a place like Hong Kong, which has the world’s worst housing costs.
They’re also called nano flats.
Oh, I’ve heard that one.
Yeah, nano flats and nat flats because they’re so tiny.
And those are about half the size of what we call in this country micro units.
Wow, that’s small.
Like $300,000 for a studio apartment in the middle of Miami Beach.
That’s the size of two parking spaces.
And that flat is about half that size.
Like a double-wide refrigerator size, right?
