Justice
Tiny Homes: A New Model for Super-Chic Affordable Housing?
A group of Washingtonians say micro-dwellings are the future. But problems abound.
If you drive to the end of a residential street in the Northeast quadrant of Washington, D.C., you'll see a small white sign, affixed to a fence, that points down an alleyway to Lot No. 21. It is a fairly mundane address for what its occupants envision as nothing less than a little patch of housing Utopia—with the emphasis squarely on little.
Lot 21 encloses four tiny houses, each measuring no more than 200 square feet. To the homeowners, these small structures represent one possible solution to the crisis of affordable housing in major cities.