In this Dec. 22, 2015, photo, Stage 3 Properties co-founder Christopher Bledsoe demonstrates a desk that expands into a dining table that can seat up to 12 people inside one of the apartments at the Carmel Place building in New York. As the city-sponsored micro-apartment project nears completion, its setting an example for tiny dwellings that the nations biggest city sees as an aid to easing its affordable housing crunch. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
