Tiny Texas Houses

[OxQQme]

This guy is so amazing I had to share.
It's an hour long.

[TreasonousBastard]

1. This is a really big deal. The problem tends to be with local zoning laws...

and building codes. I have seen tiny homes, school buses, shipping containers, railroad cars... you name it... converted into really neat housing. You could even put several on a typical building lot. If the town lets you.

If you have lived in a typical NYC studio, one of these will seem palatial.

Best you can do around here is plop a double-wide down, or pretend your motor home is just "parked". Then you still have to deal with water, sewer, and electrical. Easier to plop the double-wide in an established trailer park,

Used to be summer cottages not much different from these around here, although maybe a little bigger. The towns have scared most of them off, and exploding RE values have scared of the rest.

https://thetinylife.com/what-is-the-tiny-house-movement/

[PoliticAverse]

2. "The problem tends to be with local zoning laws" - indeed. Local zoning laws...

usually specify minimum requirements for new home construction including minimum square footage.

A cynical person might think the intention of some of the requirements are to keep poor people out of the area.

[Wounded Bear]

4. Population density is a real concern...

due to drains on infrastructure like sewer, water, even electrical load.

I still like the tiny house idea as a partial solution to homelessness, but there are practical considerations, too.

[First Speaker]

3. Hmmm...I thought a "tiny" house in Texas...

...was about 6,000 square feet...