The tiny house solution By Glenn Roberts Jr, Inman News
Jim Reid's solution to the homeless problem in San Francisco: Tiny houses. His solution to the affordable-housing problem in San Francisco? You guessed it: Tiny Houses.
Reid built a fully equipped prototype, Shelter-One, to show how small a house could be -- and still be a home. The prototype, which has a 10-by-10 interior and cost about $12,000 to build, features a picket fence, a bed, a desk, a shower and bathtub, a combination washer-dryer unit and, yes, even the kitchen sink.
The Taming of the Shed By MITCHELL OWENS, New York Times
ROTTERDAM, the Netherlands
FIVE years ago, Jennifer Sigler was visiting her parents in Baltimore when her husband, Wim Kloosterboer, a Dutch architect, called one morning to say he had found the house of their dreams: an old concrete-block utility shed sitting on a dike on the outskirts of this port city.