Living Tiny Legally
Semi-Retired Woman’s 24′ Craftsman Tiny Home
She’s living the dream with her tiny house in a coastal tiny home community! Meet Beth, a semi-retired acupuncturist who lives part-time in a beautiful 24′ craftsman tiny home with a downstairs bedroom. She loves tiny home community life at Tiny Tranquility, especially because it’s just a block away from the ocean—her happy place. And…
Read MoreLawyer’s 41′ Gooseneck Tiny Home in NEW Community
First resident in NEW legal THOW community in North Carolina! Meet Emily, a young lawyer who moved back to North Carolina into a 41′ gooseneck tiny home. She left NYC to embrace a more outdoor-focused lifestyle. While she could afford a large traditional house, she wanted something simple and just right for her. Living tiny…
Read MoreA Mindful EcoVillage’s Legal Tiny Houses and Natural Built Homes
Welcome to the Port Townsend EcoVillage in Washington’s Quimper Peninsula. It’s a progressive-minded intentional community striving to live in harmony with the earth and each other. Their village is home to a wide variety of naturally built homes, and now two legally permitted tiny houses. Our latest short documentary shares an honest perspective on experimental…
Read MoreLegalize Tiny: a New Online Tiny House Advocacy Webinar
Interested in learning how to take tiny house advocacy from idea to reality to help create more legal, accessible housing options? Earlier this year, you might remember us sharing about an online tiny house advocacy webinar. Consider that the legalize tiny 101, which covered how to become an advocate and how to work with your…
Read MoreLiving Tiny Legally: a Milestone and Online Tiny House Advocacy Training
When we began filming our documentary series, Living Tiny Legally, in 2015, only three US cities changed their local land-use laws to allow for full-time living in tiny houses on wheels. Countless other cities had extremely limiting minimum square footage standards for homes on foundations, as well as barely any pathways forward for accessory dwelling units…
Read MoreOnline DEBUT of “Living Tiny Legally, Part 2”
An Educational Documentary + Resource for Tiny House Advocates and Policy Makers YOUR guide for making legal, full-time tiny house living a reality in YOUR community! “Gave me goosebumps. Never thought building code revisions could be so gripping.” — Kevin Polk, Makes A Village The much-anticipated next installment of the Living Tiny Legally documentary series recently debuted…
Read MoreOne Woman’s Journey to Living Tiny Legally
Guest Post + Podcast by Phoebe Petrovic Regulations like building and zoning codes exist to keep us safe. But they can also constrain us, making it difficult to innovate and try something new. This is the story of one woman’s journey to living tiny legally. Jan Dregalla, a retired graphic designer in Lakewood, Ohio, discovered this when…
Read MoreA Groundbreaking Zoning Ordinance for Tiny House Communities
A Tale of Zoning Happily Ever After Once upon a time in the small, forward-thinking city of Rockledge, Florida, some of the most progressive tiny housing zoning ordinances in the entire US of A were approved, in record time and with great ease. You see, the forward-thinking City Manager had an eye for viable solutions for the…
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