Huh? Since when is it a city's business to decide how large an apartment should be? That should be determined by the free market.
Next thing you know, cities will be regulating soft drink sizes.
Oh, wait...they're already doing that.
Thomas Sowell has written about the CA real estate market and how zoning laws really crank up the cost of housing in the greater SF area.
People are upset with Bloomberg for looking to make the zoning more lenient in NYC so smaller apartments can be built. I believe the average cost of a 1-bedroom rental in Manhattan is now over $3,000 a month.
Most cities used zoning to ban boarding houses
Boarding houses were a smart free market solution to housing for people just starting out or who might be taking temporary work
My great grandfather lived in a boarding house when he was an apprentice machinist and he met his future wife who was living about a block away. They attended the same church which was about a block away from both.