Tiny Housing

The classic american dream is comprised of a successful job, a car, a family, and a perfect house with its white picket house. A house ownership is the sign of a source of income, stability, and a future asset for generations because it could be used for collateral, as a rental property, or a home without having to pay a hefty mortgage. Housing is the key to having the necessary stability in order to give the poorest people in our community a chance to break away from their socioeconomic level. In addition to better safety net government programs, it is important to create accessible housing opportunities for those who cannot afford housing in order to relieve poverty in the United States.
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Given the information by Ms. Lundahl, “The cost of units at Quixote Village is significantly higher than at Second Wind, about $88,000 per unit, but that's still less than half the cost of the average public housing project” (Lundahl 2014). The Quixote Village and Second Wind are both tiny house communities that have caught the attention from the media because of the lower prices associated with housing the homeless. These reported costs vary because a majority of the costs come from the land prices besides that the costs are reduced by the work of volunteers or donations. These houses provide the privacy, indepence, and community a person requires in order to thrive. The communities also share garden space, showers, chicken coops, rules, and meals. However the regulations regarding the construction and the placement of these houses is the hurdle to jump over in order to begin implementing tiny houses as a form of aid for the homeless. The tiny house movement has begun to receive government aid, the Quixote Village applied for a grant and it was approved under the condition of reporting every five years the progress of the village. With this program we march in the right direction but we should invest more of the money into projects like these because it does make an impact on the people that live in these communities. As stated in the article, “"One of our residents has been homeless for about 25 years," Severn says. "He told me he's excited to start a little rose garden. It really touched me to hear that."” (Lundahl 2014). If this type of progress is any indication of the future of the tiny houses initiative this is the program to invest in to make the difference for a person living in