http://tinyhouseblog.com/stick-built/ellens-tiny-house/
Ellen’s Tiny House
by Christina Nellemann on October 10th, 2011
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Ellen Dawson-Witt was recently featured in her local newspaper because of her tiny house and her downshifted life. Ellen’s 192 square foot house is located on her property in Yellow Springs, Ohio where she grows some of her own food and carries water from a well for washing, uses solar panels for a lamp, CD player and laptop and uses a composting toilet. She does her cooking on a gas range from 1934.
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Hmmm, the 2011 version of a McMansion?
Clearly the malinvestment of the past decades is in the “overinvestment” in housing. The “Real Estate Market” collapse is a symptom.
Small houses are one alternative. (Homelessness due to high cost.) It would be possible to reasonable afford a “bachelor pad”. There probably needs to be practical “family” housing. Not small for small’s sake, but right-size. (Reminds me of the insource, outsource, rightsource debate in information technology in the late 80’s.)
Multi-generational households are another. (This also solves some of the elder care problem; or at least delays it.)
Plus, there’s a need for housing that adapts over time — the needs of the young morphs into the needs of the old. Housing; not “housing supply” since there are tremendous transaction costs.
One thing’s for sure, the Gooferment isn’t going to deliver that or do anything but delay or prevent it.
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