Vionna Wai, 30, and her husband, Chucky Hui, 29, were living in a 1-bedroom apartment with their cats for two years when the pandemic caused them to think about moving closer to their families. Wai, a construction engineer, and Hui, a UX designer, were living in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y. and paying … Read more
Nkenge is a native New Yorker, born in the Bronx and raised in Harlem. While growing up in the city, living in a neighborhood like Manhattan’s Flatiron, where the current median rent is $5,394, seemed like a distant possibility for the now 30-year-old content creator. But Nkenge’s dream became a reality when she was selected … Read more
The day after AnnMarie Young graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2021, she and her best friend moved to Fairbanks, Alaska for the summer. The 23-year-old artist lived in Alaska for three months before returning to Texas. But Young tells CNBC Make It that the moment she left, she knew she wanted … Read more
When Sampson Dahl, 28, found a former laundromat in Maspeth, Queens on an online forum back in 2019, he had no idea how much the space would become his life. Early last year, CNBC Make It met Dahl after his former laundromat-turned-apartment went viral on TikTok. At the time, he was paying $1,850 a month … Read more