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Would these places look as good as this???

or this??

mmmarvel says

Um, no, let's NOT make them legal

Why do you hate freedom?

Um, no, let's NOT make them legal, we have enough ugly, small houses as is, let's not give them legal ways to these eyesores. Look, you want to live in something half the size of a travel trailer - GO FOR IT. But like trailer parks, you need someplace to corral and confine the itty bitty suckers. Oh, and for the record, many trailers look and are nicer than than these tiny structures.

we used to call this 'trailer park'

tovarichpeter says

In many cases we’ve found our own ‘loopholes’ that have allowed many of us to live tiny on our own terms.

Even though we can now buy a computer that fits in our pocket and communicates with anyone around the globe -- houses have become more cumbersome, more bloated and more expensive with less and less land.

If the Housing Industry were the Automobile Industry, it would be about 1974, and the US would be manufacturing giant Bel Airs and Grand Torinos while gas prices were going through the roof.

The first tiny homes are like the first Toyotas from the 1960s...right idea, but too tiny, not ready yet.

What we need is neither an expensive tiny house or an expensive McMansion.

What we need is something reasonably sized that can be built quickly and cheaply, that is as self contained as possible, and which can be transported by tractor trailer with as little assembly to cheap land in reach of an Internet hookup.

And the total cost should be low...phenomenally low. So low, say $50,000, that would would not even bother with resale...we'd expect the price to drop and we'd replace it with a newer, better, and more feature laden model every 7 years.

mmmarvel says

Um, no, let's NOT make them legal

Why do you hate affordable housing?

I'd agree with this but the price of these houses is way, way out of line for what you get.

John Bailo says

And the total cost should be low...phenomenally low. So low, say $50,000, that would would not even bother with resale...we'd expect the price to drop and we'd replace it with a newer, better, and more feature laden model every 7 years.

WTF do you anticipate would improve so much about a box that provides a little shelter from the weather, that you would want to replace it every 7 years?
And, why would you want to pay $50K every 7 years for a new box to keep the rain out and the heat in / out? Why would the old one suck so much that it would not perform anymore?

There are actually a couple of 1 BR houses in Hollywood that were built between the 30's and 50's, that are about 400-500 sqft. If you saw these houses you would not want to live there unless you were a bare minimalist.

Tiny homes are being touted and marketed to brain dead demographic that doesn't think with out consulting the Social media norm first.
These houses are made out to be "New", "Fresh", "Hip" and "Cool".
Plus they are "Green" which it is also reputed in common media circles that the Chicks all dig it.

Once social acceptance, interest and popularity in these closets wane, these things will be left to be used as poor housing, in the FEMA camps.

my husband and I spent 7 nights sleeping in a walk-in closet in our spare room/office, while my in-laws and their baby took our master. This cured me of any romantic tiny house notions I had been harboring.