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Life Inside Hong Kong’s ‘Coffin Cubicles’
Pushed out by the sky-high prices of rent in glittering Hong Kong, these people get by in illegally subdivided apartments.
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The 'Coffin Homes' of Hong Kong
AP photographer Kin Cheung spent time recently photographing some of the tiny subdivided housing units in Hong Kong, known as “coffin homes.”
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This house was 3D-printed in just 24 hours
If you need a house in a hurry, this is for you.
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This LA Musician Built $1,200 Tiny Houses for the Homeless. Then the City Seized Them.
Each night, tens of thousands of people sleep in tent cities crowding the palm-lined boulevards of Los Angeles, far more than any other city in the nation. The homeless population in the entertainment capital of the world has hit new record highs in each of the past few years. But a 39-year-old struggling musician from South LA thought he had a creative fix. Elvis Summers, who went through stretches of homelessness himself in his 20s, raised over $100,000 through crowdfunding campaigns last spring.
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This Tiny Home Grows With The Push Of A Button
Love the idea of a tiny home, but not the tiny square-footage? ZeroSquared, a Calgary-based company, has come up with tiny home model that is flipping the script on tiny home living — with only one touch of a button. The Aurora tiny home will expand using motorized slide-outs, immediately creating more living space. In fact, the home will almost double in width — going from 8.6 feet to 15.1 feet wide and offering a total 337 sq.-ft. of living space.
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Detroit is getting a neighborhood of tiny homes that homeless people rent to own
Tiny homes are being built around the country for a variety of reasons — some are designed for affordability, others are prefabricated to be constructed quickly, and some are made by people who simply choose to live a minimalist lifestyle. In Detroit, an entire neighborhood of tiny houses is under construction, with one primary goal: giving homeless and low-income people the opportunity to own a house.
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Kristie Wolfe builds underground home & sets rural WA hamlet
Inspired by the success of the Hawaii treehouse she built for $11,000, Kristie Wolfe began searching for land to build a “Hobbit”-inspired village. Knowing that there is land to be found for cheap in this country (she bought her Hawaii property for $8000), she began to search the Northwest for sites. “There’s a lot of land everywhere, if you look on craigslist, if you look on zillow, you can find property so it’s not really that there’s not a lot. The issue is with property that’s in my price range- I’m looking for property that’s $10,000 to 20,000- usually there’s a reason why it’s cheap, it’s eit
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How to Build Your Own Starter House in Just 5 Steps — for $25,000
Wanna ditch the mortgage and live in a modular, open source, ecological house? Introducing the Open Building Institute Eco-Building Toolkit. Picture this: you own a small piece of land. Nothing fancy — just a small plot. A group of people shows up, sets up a workshop in your shed, and within five days, using materials available at your local hardware store or made from the raw resources of your land, builds you a small starter house kitted out with state-of-the-art eco features for less than $25,000.
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Japan’s Hardcore Minimalists Live in Virtually Empty Homes
The minimalist lifestyle trend has been gaining popularity in the Western world for a while now, but we're still far from the hardcore minimalism Zen-loving Japanese.
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This 1906 Earthquake Shack Is Selling for $1.38M
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468 Sq. Ft. Off-Grid Tiny Cabin in Colorado
This is a 468 sq. ft. off-grid tiny cabin (for sale) in Colorado on 40 acres. From the outside, you’ll notice it has a wonderful, large covered porch. When you go inside, you’ll find a living area, kitchen, dining table, downstairs bedroom with bunk beds, and an upstairs sleeping loft.
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Hong Kong's Eco Smart Home packs luxury living into a mere 400 square feet
Remodeled by the Hong Kong-based Liquid Interiors, the Eco Smart Home utilizes space-saving tech and green-friendly appliances to achieve luxury living.
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US Government Declaring All Out War on Tiny House Living
Freedom in the United States today is a moving target, and when the government catches wind of an innovation that makes life easier and more affordable for ordinary people, it always steps in to take control. Take, for example, the growing effort to outlaw offgrid living in the U.S., as well as moves by local governments around the country to criminalize private rainwater collection. Now, the federal government is making a major move against the tiny house movement...
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In Pod-Based Community Living, Rent Is Cheap, But Sex Is Banned
With the rise of community living and workcations, an alternative might be to just sleep where you cowork.
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Kasita is a tiny house that comes connected right out of the box
Kasita makes portable, prefabricated, pint-sized homes, but what’s really intriguing about the Austin-based company is that its tiny houses are smart right from the start. When Kasita starts shipping its 270-square-foot houses later this year, each will come connected with a Nest thermostat, Amazon Echo, Casper queen-sized mattress, View Dynamic Glass, and Hue lighting in addition to standard amenities like a dishwasher, induction cooktop, and convection oven.
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Philadelphia's Trinity Houses are the Original Tiny Houses
Move over, cabin porn. These are the oldest, and cutest.
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L.A. is seizing tiny homes from the homeless
Escalating their battle to stamp out an unprecedented spread of street encampments, city officials have begun seizing tiny houses from homeless people living on freeway overpasses in South Los Angeles.
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Is the Tiny-House Movement a Big Fat Lie?
Tiny houses are so hip it hurts. Hailed for their low cost of living and minuscule carbon footprint, these dwellings measuring 400 square feet (or less) have emerged as the perfect retort to America’s obsession with McMansions and overconsumption. Heck, some say they could even be the solution to our country’s affordable housing crisis. So is our nation headed toward a future filled with pint-sized homes from sea to shining sea? On the contrary, rumblings are afoot that could...
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Why Our Fascination with Tiny Houses?
Have you noticed the growing trend regarding tiny houses? In the past few years, I have noticed more and more TV programs devoted to the subject. There are more and more companies building and selling these homes. Websites are proliferating on the topic. As one of the TV programs states in its opening, “tiny houses are the next big thing”. But why?
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Handcrafted Mendocino Coast Hideaway
My wife and I recently took the family (two kids + two dogs) on a short vacation to the Mendocino Coast. The house pictured here is limited to two people and doesn’t allow dogs, so we couldn’t stay in it this; but the next time the two of us go alone, I want to stay in this tiny house!
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