Small World: The Tiny House Trend
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Small World: The Tiny House Trend
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#2Tiny houses are just gentrified trailers.
Re: Small World: The Tiny House Trend
#3Tiny houses are just gentrified trailers.
Not necessarily. Look at this house for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUZcHeszQU
It's amazing what you can do with 20sqm.
Re: Small World: The Tiny House Trend
#4Tiny houses are just gentrified trailers.
But where does that put manufactured homes?
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#5Tiny houses are just gentrified trailers.
gentrified is a useful feature - trailers have earned their bad quality reputation. There is no reason they can't be higher quality.
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#6Tiny houses are just gentrified trailers.
> ...gentrified trailers.
One advantage of small houses is that they tend to encourage more diversity of design, materials and higher build quality than your typical trailer or tyvek/plywood mass development tract home.
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#7Tiny houses are just gentrified trailers.
Having grown up in trailers, I wholly disagree. Every trailer I've lived in is larger than any tiny home that I've seen, as they're striving to be as close to a "normal" house as possible. Tiny homes come from a completely different design philosophy, and as result, give a completely different experience than a trailer. They're also more portable than trailers, though the latter's name makes it sound more moveable.
You'd be more correct to say that tiny homes are gentrified RVs.
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#8Tiny houses are just gentrified trailers.
Not necessarily. Look at this house for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUZcHeszQU It's amazing what you can do with 20sqm.
This house looks amazing! But it doesn't seem like a "tiny house". I thought tiny houses were by definition on wheels with a more flexible way to hook up and out of utilities?
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#9Tiny houses are just gentrified trailers.
not really there are some startups doing these designs for those with low income to promote financial stability among working poor in the US
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#10Tiny houses are just gentrified trailers.
The real problem with gentrification is displacement. Or at least that’s the problem we should be most concerned about at a socetietal level. Everyone needs a place to live, and if some middle class people find a smaller house is what works best for their financial situation then that is OK. What we really should be concerned about is whether everyone — especially lower class people — can afford a home.