URBANITES are being forced into shrinking apartments due to the housing affordability crisis but furniture giant Ikea has come up with a cunning plan to deal with it. It is launching new micro-living furniture, inspired by storage ideas in actual space shuttles. Ikea will shrink its furniture to target those who have to move into small apartments and tiny homes. “An Ikea team is looking into how a Mars habitat can become more like home,” Ikea said in a statement. The micro-living plan was announced on Wednesday at the Democratic Design Day in Sweden and a team of Ikea designers will be cooped up and put through a mini-version of NASA’s Mars Training Program to identify what storage solutions work and what’s missing. “It’s a crazy, fun experience. We’re basically completely isolated for three days to get a taste of what astronauts go through for three years,” Ikea creative leader Michael Nikolic said. Ikea hopes a new found knowledge of space will help make…