News Blip: Alternative Housing Across The Country
The NY Times Reports On The Tiny-Living Craze Along With The Factors Advocates Should Consider, Such As Being Safe And Finding A Place To Park
In what has developed from traditionally RVing, an overwhelming craze on living in a less expensive home that can easily be produced, and ideally transported, has begun the tiny-home movement. Tiny home, or tiny house, dwellers are traveling across the country with their homes and parking them where able. Unlike an RV, a tiny home is designed to look the part. However, some also can be towed. Zoning regulations in most places, especially densely developed regions, typically do not allow full-time living in temporary structures like R.V.s or movable tiny houses.
NY Times writer Lisa Prevost relates in here article: "Most tiny homes are built on wheeled trailers that can be towed. Unlike R.V.s, however, tiny houses are generally not wheeled for touring, so much as for flexibility of location." One cannot just park the homes just anywhere. Andrew Morrison, a professional builder and tiny-house advocate in Oregon, told Prevost, "easily upwards of 90 percent of tiny-house owners are living illegally, when it comes to zoning." For learning the experiences of current people living in Tiny Homes and their thoughts on why they decided to do so is included in the article that you can find below.
Read the full article at The New York Times right here.
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