Twenty-six modular cottages, shop-built in Cleveland, then trucked and craned onto Southern Adventist University’s campus. Student housing that sits right next to the tiny-house conversation.
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Tiny House Magazine Issue #164: Wind River Homes, Slowing Down, and What’s Next After Tiny
The latest Tiny House Magazine is out. Issue #164 is $9 — pick up a copy for a little distraction, and to renew your dreams of living in a tiny house.
Virginia’s New ADU Law: Backyard Tiny Houses Get Easier to Build in 2027
Governor Spanberger signed SB 531, requiring every Virginia locality to allow accessory dwelling units by right in single-family zones starting July 1, 2027 — with permit fees capped at $500. Here is what it does, what it does not, and what you could actually build.
If a Tiny House Is $11,500 With an Add-to-Cart Button, It’s a Scam
Dan George of ESCAPE wrote us this morning. People are getting ripped off by an online shop that uses a name almost identical to his company, lists finished tiny houses at prices that cannot be real, and lets you add a house to a shopping cart like a pair of shoes. We visited the website [...]
Belmont Tiny House Village: 32 Volunteer-Built Homes Land on Seattle’s Capitol Hill
Seattle’s newest tiny house village brings 32 wood-framed 96 sq ft homes to Capitol Hill. Here’s the full story: the $4,500 volunteer build, the $1.1M budget, the stalled apartment project it replaced, and why Seattle’s villages outperform LA’s.
Van Nuys Opens a 50-Home Tiny House Village Beside the Train Tracks
A new 50-unit, 100-bed tiny home village just opened next to the Van Nuys Metrolink station. Here’s the full breakdown: the 64 sq ft Pallet units, the $5.5M cost, who runs it, and what five years of LA data actually shows about whether these villages work.
Are Tiny Houses a Solution or a Symptom? Researchers Spent a Year in Texas Finding Out
Three geographers spent time inside Texas tiny house communities and came away with an uncomfortable argument: the movement is both a genuine path to freedom and a readable symptom of a housing market that has stopped working.
