The living room takes up the majority of the space: 15 sq m as opposed to just 3 sq m for the bathroom in the basement. https://t.co/wDdptiVR6S — Marc Sirvin (@MarcSirvin) October 2, 2019Even the staircases double up as storage space with their own hidden closets. In fact, over the last ten years, the cost of buying in Paris has risen by 62.5 percent. The shortage of apartments and the high demand for rentals has lead to some landlords to take advantage. In 2018 a French housing charity revealed that a 71-year-old man had for 25 years been living in an apartment that was just 5 metres square - and had only one metre square high enough for him to actually stand up.

Source: The Local October 04, 2019 07:18 UTC