This is to announce the find your alternative housing tiny house workshop event in Portland, Oregon on Thursday, June 27th, 2019 from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm.

Are you thinking about some kind of creative home — like a tiny house, RV, backyard home, or backyard community? If you know you want a home that’s “different” but don’t know which one, we have THE perfect event for you!

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Find YOUR alternative housing creative workshop/event in Portland, Oregon with Dee Williams and others

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This is the story of how tiny homes made a big impact at the recent Innovative Housing Showcase event in Washington, D.C. which showcased several affordable housing options. And also, how our government may be opening up to legalizing tiny.

Alexis and Christian, of Tiny House Expedition, even got the attention of Ben Carson, head of housing and development for the United States. Mr. Carson mentioned how we are being hampered by regulatory barriers. Again, this is coming from the United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)! THAT’S encouraging. Maybe we will see significant forward progress for tiny homes in the very near future. So, wanna see what the event was like? Let’s go…

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How tiny houses made a big impact at the Washington DC Innovative Housing Showcase event (2019)

Image via Tiny House Expedition/YouTube

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These are the Binishells tiny and small housing solutions. It’s a dome-like structure that can be used in many different ways. Here are some examples of how they can be used as tiny homes, small homes, and duplexes.

This construction method uses less labor and materials than conventional building methods, but what do you think? Is it something that you’ve heard of before? To explore more interesting tiny homes like this, join our Tiny House Newsletter.

Dome-like Binishells Tiny and Small Housing

Images © Binishells

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This is the OPod Tube Tiny House by James Law Cybertecture designed and built out of concrete water pipes!

According to Business Insider, they measures just 100 sq. ft. and each tube costs about $15,000. They can be stacked and therefore be used as a temporary housing solution in places like shipyards, under highways, or even in-between buildings.

Please enjoy, learn more, and re-share below. Thanks!

Stackable 100 Sq. Ft. OPod Tube Tiny House!

Photos © James Law Cybertecture

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Remember Professor Wilson? He’s the teacher I once told you about who took a dumpster and turned it into a tiny home and then followed through by living in it for 10 months!

That’s right! He actually lived in a converted DUMPSTER for ten months (happily)!

And now, according to Kirsten Dirksen, Jeff Wilson is creating, promoting and selling the “iPhone for housing”! And I think he’s on to something!

In the video (below), Jeff says, “things have not changed in real estate since 1884,” and I couldn’t agree more!

So this is the Kasita! It’s an incredible yet very simple idea but what do you think?

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These are Tiny Houses for the 2018 Winter Olympics.

According to TreeHugger, The+Partners and DNC Architects designed this tiny house as a prototype for alternative housing in Pyeongchang, Gangwon-do, South Korea, where the 2018 Winter Olympics will be held. There’s not enough accommodation in Gangwon city for all the people that will attend the winter games, so the architects are building tiny houses!

Gangwon city is one of the few clean areas left in Korea and it needs to be protected and kept that way. ‘The Tiny House Of Slow Town’ project has the purpose of providing accommodations with the maximized housing facilities while using the least materials, [and] that are environmentally friendly.

Related: Sequoia Tiny House on Wheels by Minimaliste

Tiny Houses for the 2018 Winter Olympics

Images via Moonbum Jang

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Have we reached peak tiny house? These days you can hardly turn your head without bumping into some kind of micro dwelling. A slew of reality shows like Tiny House Hunters, Tiny House, Big Life, and Tiny House Nation are documenting the joys and trials of the downsized life. Last year a Portlandia skit poked fun at the micro home trend (their tiny house featured a fold-up kitty litter box and a mini-library for “alone time”). There’s even a thing called “tiny house regret” for those who convert to the micro life only to realize they can’t quite swing it.

Between the pop culture takeover and the realities of downsizing, some are wondering if the tiny house is close to joining MySpace and Crocs in the land where trends go to die.

But even if the whimsical HGTV tiny home does have an expiration date, there’s evidence that the current tiny renaissance is just the first wave in a much broader micro movement.

Is the tiny house trend dead?

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This is the drawer house created by Japanese architects Nendo in Tokyo, Japan.

It’s a multi-functional residential home that transforms according to what you’re doing whether it’s cooking, sleeping, entertaining, dining, bathing, or studying.

Everything pulls out of one wall so that just like a drawer, you can pull out and put away whatever you need. It’s a versatile way to deal with the limited amount of space available in places like Tokyo. Please enjoy, learn more, and re-share below. Thank you!

Multi-functional Transforming Drawer House in Tokyo

Images © Nendo.jp

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