The tiny home trend has captured the interest of a lot of people and just in the United States alone it has exploded over the last several years. You can now find numerous tiny home communities located around the US.
The tiny homes offer an opportunity for those who are interested, to downsize and find something more economically friendly, to DE-clutter their life and live a more simple lifestyle, or to finally have the chance to embrace real home ownership, and more.
It's a growing trend that has attracted people from all different walks of life and might be safe to assume that it's an industry that isn't going anywhere anytime soon.
You will find consumers both young and old who are interested in the tiny home trend and a variety of reasons as to why people find this lifestyle so appealing compared to traditional living spaces.
Many areas have sought to utilize tiny homes in order to help them combat homelessness and it's helping many people be able to become a first time home-owner who otherwise would never have had the chance.
The average tiny home can cost anywhere from $20,000 to $75,000 or more; depending on what the individual is looking for. And for many, this is their cheapest home ownership option.
In a number of areas there has been quite a regulatory struggle when it comes to the tiny homes, because in many jurisdictions they don't meet specific regulations/zoning codes, and so there has been push back from city officials.
It might have been easy to build or acquire the tiny home, but finding a "legal" place to put it is a whole other story. However, despite the messy start, the trend has really taken off and some cities have been much more accommodating than others when it comes to making changes to allow this movement to grow.
One pilot program that was launched not long ago in Portland, Oregon, is looking to work with the homeless in the area and residents in the community, in order to build relationships between those who are willing to offer their backyard to those in need.
The plan is for those who are home-owners in the community, to offer their backyard property as a location for a tiny house unit that they will eventually become the owners of. The home-owners will be able to use the tiny home, given to them by the state, to generate a rental income.
And they aren't the only area to try and craft such an arrangement to help more people get into tiny homes who need them.
In New Zealand,...
tiny home owners there might also have an easier time finding land now that a new website, called Landshare, has been launched that is seeking to pair up land owners with tiny home owners in a similarly beneficial arrangement to the program launched in Portland.
With this deal, land owners are creating temporary and permanent arrangements with tiny home owners, so that those owners will have a place to put their home.
The website provides much more affordable solutions to consumers, so that those with limited funds can still acquire their own home, establish a land rental arrangement, and hopefully down the road be able to purchase their own land if that is what they want.
Not only is this going to help cost-conscious consumers who are looking to find a land solution for their tiny home needs, but it's also going to greatly benefit land-owners who have a lot of extra space that they aren't putting to good use at the moment. This option allows them to put that land to use by renting it out to those in need in a very convenient way. And we've seen this sort of land share arrangement coming to many urban areas, not only for the tiny homes, but so people can rent land to grow food and community gardens; who might otherwise not have had the chance to.
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Sources:
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-0825-homeless-tiny-houses-20150825-story.html
http://landshare.nz/
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11922581
https://www.curbed.com/2016/9/22/13002832/tiny-house-zoning-laws-regulations
http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/08/29/san-jose-hundreds-turn-out-for-heated-discussion-about-tiny-homes/
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-tiny-houses-return-20160421-story.html
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/detroits-tiny-houses-give-residents-home-rebuild-lives/
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