Developers Building Tiny House Communities

With all the complaining about the price of houses, I have wondered why someone didn't just do the obvious and build them smaller. I mean, a lot of Americans live by themselves these days.

And I'm not the only one who had this thought. A developer in San Antonio, Texas is building a subdivision called Elms Trails where you can get a very small house for around $130,000 and up.

And here is a similar development near Seattle.

You can get them even smaller; this is a small neighborhood of 350-square-feet homes, also near San Antonio.

Village of Wildflowers, a tiny house retirement community in North Carolina.

There are also a bunch of DYI tiny house communities springing up, that is, places zoned for small houses with small lots and utility hook-ups where you can build tiny house or install one you bring in on a trailer. The most famous seems to be Spur, Texas (below). I think this is great. People have long complained that developers only build for the median family, so many folks who want a good location and a decent neighborhood have to buy much more house than they need. So lets build them in all sizes.