On a normal day — that is to say, pre-pandemic — living in a small apartment, a place that commands minimalism, could be inconvenient. For people now cramped in tight quarters under stay-at-home orders necessitated by the coronavirus pandemic, what once seemed charming in its coziness is no more. It’s annoying. “There is a feeling of being trapped,†said Allison Fegel, a real estate agent for Philly Home Girls, a female-run company in East Kensington. People are saying, “We need more space; we need more green.â€
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