Put house on truck
Profit!
Americans will do anything but build terraces.
Young people “love” them because it’s a house they can afford. They’d “love” a regular house if they could afford one.
I think that might be the most American photographer ever taken.
What is the point in building teeny tiny homes if they’re going to be placed six feet apart and have no private space. The whole point of a small compact house is it leaves space over for communal stuff. This feels like an American visited Europe and completely failed grasp the point.
The whole point of a small compact house is it leaves space over for communal stuff.
What? The whole point is saving money, and smaller land is cheaper…
If that is so, what is the point of all that unusable wasted space around thise buildings, other than law requiring it for some randomreasons?
Without that, those buildings could either have high quality outside space that could be used for gardening or a terrace or the area could be reduced.
The point is for the developer to capitalize on the hype and fomo. Yes, most likely just enough space to meet property setbacks and utility easement requirements.
They squeeze the most “houses” in the lot as they can.
You know, we could make them even cheaper by cramming them so close they share walls and then stacking them on top of each other. And because they’re all together, we can call them apartments.
If they are in Texas then it’s 43C outside and 95% humidity, so you don’t go outside for anything if you don’t have to.
Also these are just apartments that are actually apart. So, basically just really inefficient apartments.
Gardening? Do you know the concept?
You know full well the only garden allowed by any HOA here is a lawn.
Looks like the house fits on that truck’s bed
Yeah… well, maybe if you didn’t spend $60k on a truck and another $10k on a lift kit, you could afford a normal-sized house.
The hell do you need a lifted F-250 for?! You’re not hauling anything, you’re not towing anything, and that lift kit just ruined whatever practical use the truck had in the first place.
So you’ve got a 6,000-pound grocery-getting overcompensation machine that’s somehow less useful than the truck was before you modified it.
Congratulations. You spent $70k to make a work truck worse at doing work.
People who buy these trucks are not generally paying cash. After taxes and loan interest, that $70K overcompensation machine is easily over $100K, more than the tiny home.
You know when I feel the most manly? When I successfully load my Kia Soul EV with groceries from Costco AND manage to get all four of my kids in there as well. A big pick-up truck is just cheating.
People love them??!!! WTF! When I was a kid in rural South America we would pitty people who’s house was not solid brick and had side walk. “Hay pobrecitos”.
That frame of mind as my “shades” that I see the world thru tell me that this is wrong. Micro houses should be for anyone who really truly wants one… For people in the middle of nowhere that need some sleep tonight. For the homeless who lost a job or got an expensive disease. ETC. Not for regular people in the city with good jobs.
Yeah, but it’s better than being unable to own a house for a lot of people. It’s absolutely not for me, I’m far more inclined towards a townhouse if possible, but I’m an engineer who wants to live in a more urban area.
Houses have gotten ludicrously expensive compared to what people can afford in America. This is partly because housing is seen as an investment and so any policy that reduces housing cost will take a good chunk out of the wealth of a large portion of the population.
But yeah the talks of extending home loans past 30 years is just egregious
Housing as an investment is a problem. But so is having kids. Each kid needs a house until we die. So at least one extra house. When we die they get the other but then they’ll have the same problem… Kids… And where to house them.
Everyone in this thread not realizing that the post is about living in a truck.
I saw these on YouTube shorts. They are insanely expensive. Maybe not for that area, but I ny small town of 400k in the Midwest it’s more than or equal to a full size house morgage.
I saw something similar on youtube about japanese inspired micro-apartments to create affordable living for the masses… the rent was like 1800-2500. Which is not affordable anything for anyone but the top 1%, who’d never lower themselves to living in 50 square feet.
that atrocity of a truck is missing its nuts.
Young ppl love that they get any home at all. It’s nobody’s preference.
Oh so a NYC apartment? LOL
Parking is always an issue, even with giant houses because they insists on 3-stall driveways making street parking vanish. They should just go ahead and make the street 16ft narrower since no one can park on the street anyway.
Those look like the ones being built on the east side of San Antonio. For reference they’re about $150K, which people love but are only 350sq-ft. They have some that are 600 sq-ft that are closer to $170K. That’s still over $400-$460/sq-ft which is insane. The small one has a loft that you have to reach via a ladder (not even stairs) and is only about 10-12 feet wide.
that seems overpriced for these “tiny homes”
It very much is. It preys on people who want to buy a house, but can’t afford these stupid prices. For reference the $/sq-ft is actually pretty close to one of the most expensive neighborhoods in town (Alamo Heights), the difference is when you start looking at a 1,800sq-ft home it puts it at over $800K.
Looks like yer average northern English terrace.
Except terraces are sensible and actually make use of the space rather than having gaps for no reason other than to be able to say they’re “detached”
But you can plant some lovely plants that way.
I had the AI draw you a picture because I know reading isnt everyones strong suit.
Or could it be that you don’t know enough about the subject to explain it without using AI?
That’s often the case with people who do this kind of stuff.
Or hear me out the reading comprehension in the room is beyond what i can talk down too without including the words moron. Also its not my fault ya’ll failed out of science and have never once been interested in learning something since. I just soundproofed my house after a lot of research so ya im actually pretty familiar in knowledge and practice!!
Sounds like projection to me.
If you can’t explain the basics of a concept to the average joe, you’re not truly knowledgeable on the subject. That’s just a fact, and it applies to everything.
