Anyone can learn to do-it-yourself (DIY), even this writer’s corporate-lawyer father who turned foot-wide biscuit tins into lamps that never fell over.
An intriguing project in Oakland California is assisting youth who are homeless as they design and build a village of tiny homes. It sounds like a fortuitous pairing: employing those who need both employment and homes to DIY. I can only hope their design sense is better than my father’s, as regularly measured by my mother’s dismayed cry of, “Not another one!”
Read more in The Mercury News: Homeless youth build East Bay tiny house village
Small is beautiful, but why stop there? Folks in desperate need of housing are already working on a ‘sky’s the limit’ approach to cooperative DIY home construction. And their energy and enterprise is being legitimized by professional architects. Read more at CNN: Are ‘self-build’ high-rises coming to a city near you?
