Tiny Homes - Alternative to Conventional Housing

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Tiny Homes – An Alternative 
to Conventional Housing

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The NestHouse tiny house, Linlithgow, UK. Image credit: Jonathan Avery; Creative Commons

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Contents
Acknowledgements         5
Executive summary        7
1 | Introduction        9
What is a tiny house?         9
Design, use and placement        16
Tiny homes and other housing typologies        18
2 | Tiny house users and demographics    21
Survey findings         22
User satisfaction         27
3 | Housing affordability         29
The economics of building small         30
4 | Opportunities         33
Quick to build          33
Go small, go green         33
Innovative technologies         37
5 | Challenges         39
Political         40
Financial         40
Cultural         42
Perception and impacts on quality of life         43
6 | Tiny homes, codes and standards         45
An overview: BC Building Code         48
CSA standards          49
Tiny house features and code compliance          53
Closing the gap         57
Creating a future for tiny homes         59
7 | Insurance, financing and warranty         61
Insurance         63
Financing         65
Home warranty insurance and manufactures warranties         66
Moving forward         68
8 | Case studies – Lessons learned         69
Case study no. 1: Bluegrass Meadows Micro Village | Regional District of Kitimat-Stikine, BC         71
Case study no. 2: North Okanagan Friendship Center Society | Vernon, BC         75
Case study no. 3: City of Grand Forks | Grand Forks, BC         79
Case study no. 4: Caravan–The Tiny House Hotel | Portland, OR         85
Case study no. 5: City of Fresno | Fresno, CA         89

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Case study no. 6: Boneyard Studios | Washington, DC         95  
Case study no. 7: Detroit Tiny Homes | Detroit, MI         101
Case study no. 8: Temporary and permanent tiny house communities for people experiencing homelessness  
and/or low-income populations in various communities across the USA                                                                                                                                                                                                           105
Community First! Village | Austin, TX  106
Othello Village | Seattle, WA         108
Quixote Village | Olympia, WA         111
Emerald Village | Eugene, OR         114
Dignity Village | Portland, OR         117
Beloved Community Village | Denver, CO         120
9 | Exploring BC city studies          123
City study no. 1: City of Prince George, BC         125
City study no. 2: City of Nanaimo and City of Victoria, BC         129
City study no. 3: District of Tofino, BC         135
City study no. 4: District of Squamish, BC         139
10 | Conclusions and recommendations         145
11 | References         147
Appendices         149
Appendix A: Tiny home user satisfaction survey

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