In a lengthy, entertaining and informative article, Miles Howard explores the past, present and future of one form of dinky living. He focuses particularly on high tech gingerbread cottages with amenities packed together like a Swiss army knife that can do for one, or maybe two, or even a family of four at a pinch — one heck of a pinch!
Whether imagined nestled in a sylvan copse, perched on a remote mountain top, or wheeled for a quick getaway by stealing an night in a Walmart parking lot, Howard is not overly impressed with tiny homes’ future as an affordable housing solution.
His survey includes more practical affordability solutions as a means of increasing urban density (think perching tiny homes at the bottom of suburban gardens). Purpose-built tiny house villages also come in for his scrutiny.
Howard’s article does not, however, tackle a rather more likely and more frightening future — tiny homes — not self-contained houses — with the floor space of a roomy closet that are proving to be such a claustrophobic success when stacked into vertical towers in housing-unaffordable Hong Kong.
Read more at Shelterforce: Tiny Houses — Not a Big Enough Solution
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