Housing nonprofit New Story has partnered with 3D printing outfit ICON to build a prototype of a livable low-cost printed house. Located in ICON’s hometown of Austin, it’s said to be the first printed house in the country to comply with residential building codes. However, it’s not actually intended for the US market; New Story […]
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iKozie: Well-designed modular housing for the homeless
UK charity The Homeless Foundation has come up with its own modular tiny house to assist people transitioning out of homelessness. A prototype of the 186-square-foot iKozie was recently installed in the back garden of a full-size house the group owns in Worcester. Set on a shallow foundation, it’s currently being fitted out for single […]
Tiny House Warriors take on the Trans Mountain pipeline
Tiny house activism has usually meant non-confrontational efforts to reform building codes and zoning regulations, but now a group called the Tiny House Warriors is using tiny houses to take a direct-action approach to a much more controversial issue. They’re members of the indigenous Secwepemc Nation, and they’re aiming to place ten tiny houses in […]
Tesla Tiny House
Tesla, Inc., formerly Tesla Motors and still best known for its electric cars, is also big into R&D for batteries and solar panels. That was bound to have tiny house implications eventually, and now the company has made the link a little more obvious with a THOW of its own. The 20-foot Tesla Tiny House […]
Jay Shafer seeks crowdfunding for Bay Area tiny house villages
Famed tiny house movement pioneer Jay Shafer, who’s been heading up the Four Lights Tiny House Company since 2012, has a new project underway. It’s called Tiny Houses for Humanity, and its goal is to establish a series of small, affordable, child-friendly tiny house villages in the Bay Area. Jay’s working with River King, a […]