Wanyee Li with Metro News reports on tiny houses and their owners, folks that have a 250 square foot house on wheels with compost toilets and loft beds. Earlier this year Price Tags reported on the AirBnB rental “Moonbeam”a van rentable for the night in Vancouver, which was completely booked out.
The City of Vancouver does not allow people to live in vehicles, so while these tiny houses can easily fit into a trailer park, they are not legal in the City of Vancouver.
“Samantha Gambling, co-founder of the BC Tiny House Collective, was buying paint to put the finishing touches on her 320-square-foot house when Metro spoke with her Thursday. It’s just a matter of normalizing [tiny houses] and having conversations with policymakers to make those changes happen so that it can be a viable housing stock.”
Ms. Gambling sees the tiny house as an alternative type of housing, suggesting that residential property can be further subdivided down to accommodate these diminutive dwellings. Hers was built at a cost of approximately $70,000, “Tiny houses are not going to solve all the systemic problems that exist in our society.“But it will fit alongside single-family dwellings and high rises and microsuites and the whole spectrum.”
There is a BC Tiny House Collective volunteer meeting today the 20th, at CityStudio, 1800 Spyglass Place Vancouver at 6:30 p.m. Here is a link to a report on Tiny Houses prepared by Natradee Quek at UBC.
Tiny House living makes so much sense to so many people, it’s no wonder it continues to trend. Governments need to wake up and make Tiny Home living legal anywhere and everywhere.
Thank you Sandy for writing on the BC Tiny House Collective. As mentioned to Metro, Samantha’s house cost $70,000-$80,000 to build, while some tiny houses can be built anywhere from $10,000 to more than $100,000 depending on skill level, labour, materials used and whether you’re building your own or having yours built for you. This correction was sent to Metro. Thank you! Anastasia
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I wonder if this trend will always be limited to young and possibly childless adults? Can there be something for everyone, including growing families and seniors with arthritic knees? This is not Saturna Island in the 70s.