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.
People the truck is clearly there for size comparison, to illustrate the size of the tiny homes. I am getting chilly from the draft created by this flying over so many of your heads.
So you’re saying the people in Texas that live in these do not drive massive trucks?
Where did I say that?
You said it when you posted on Lemmy.
Everyone here is deeply damaged. If you say you like pancakes on this platform, someone’s going to jump to the conclusion that you want to genocide the people of Belgium for having invented the waffle, because if you like pancakes you must hate waffles.
Why you got to be a breakfast nazi like that, lowspeedchase?
I think they’re saying the people with massive trucks would also park in their driveway
There are no driveways, and that truck was digitally added.
There are definitely driveways. This makes it clearer: https://www.google.com/maps/@29.4976993,-98.3366750,3a,74.999992y,96.408623h,77.994026t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sB36ZAVzoMGHPmuy0GE72pQ!2e0?lucs=%2C100826475&g_ep=CAISBjYuMzUuNBgAIIGBASoKLDEwMDgyNjQ3NUICVVM%3D&skid=4f28f4a4-ed4e-4dfa-b4d7-d57e1f1abf2c&g_st=ic&g_st=ic
Ah, okay, so you pull in front of your door got it.
I’m thinking the town still makes it a violation to park in front of someone’s driveway?
I wouldn’t put it past the driver of that kind of pickup truck to be a dick and park across the entrances to their driveway and their neighbor’s driveway rather than just park in their driveway. They don’t have any concern for parking lines or general driving rules.
Yea it would be more realistic if it was just up in the lawn somewhere.
bullshit. you could use any size car to illustrate the size comparison with a tiny home. the title of the post is talking about parking, and the picture shows a clownshoes emotional support truck-- parking problem
lol if you’re the type of douchenozzle who has to buy a truck that’s as big as a tiny home, then parking is going to be an issue anywhere you go
less than zero sympathy
I still feel for their neighbours, and to some degree trucks being fielded as the pinnacle of masculinity has turned a lot of fragile men into victims but thats a little less salient.
Victims of their own insecurity and financial stupidity perhaps.
Nothing happens in a vacuum.
Insecurity is applied through marketing and social pressure, financial stupidity is a failure of schooling.
Im not saying they’re great people and you should love them, just trying to live up to my name.
Is that a garbage truck ?
Oscillating rapidly between “holy fuck is this what we’re being reduced to?” And “we really need more shit like this”
We’re not being reduced to this, this is the missing stepping stone to getting young people on the housing ladder. Ideally these are affordable with a single income, when you get married and are ready for kids you’d sell your 1-2 of these and buy a house. This is a reasonable alternative to a landlord. We really need more shit like this. Unfortunately americans are taken by the American dream, dunno how that happened, but this is the illusion of their white picket fence they long for, its also a good transition to that white picket fence.
“Tiny homes” sounds much nicer than “Trailer park”, no?
that’s a wild amount of overhead wires (phone lines…?) too.
and all the house numbers are nowhere near their next-door neighbours’, it would be a nightmare to try to deliver anything or to find a friend’s house
Gotta be AI. Just generated some wires and put random numbers on all the houses.
The numbering is weird… what’s going on?
Another poster figured it out. Real photo of houses - mangled by AI when trying to add the car
convincing gen-ai, maybe?
there seem to be a few letter/logo-esque things on the monster truck around the door & at the back, but on closer inspection, nothing’s legible other than the red x at the back.
Yeah I think you’re right, the silver cutout by the door is a newer Ford Fx50 thing, but the rest of the styling isn’t that close, the lettering isn’t right, and the new Ford truckss I think all have a step cutout in front of the rear wheel
Turns out they don’t build houses like this in the nicest spots
Dude I have seen bigger lavatories
Yeh, normal-sized cars are rare these days.
Yeah I feel like love is doing a lot of lifting in that statement
Yeah its probably “happy that there is finally a house in their price range”
Yeah
I love my shitty ass house, its all i have and its all i need. Honestly the foot print of those houses is the part of my house i actually use. The rest just stores shit or gets used for business purposes. Bills are cheap, cleaning is easy, everything is easy to maintain.
Tiny homes good, this setup is trash. It’s basically apartments.
Apartment but worse
These are apartments that are too libertarian to know to huddle for warmth.
idk who downvoted but this was the funniest comment i read all day.
They look cute
Put house on truck
Profit!
The only thing they “love” about them is they can potentially afford one.
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I don’t know about that. A place near me did that thing where they made little apartments out of shipping containers. Like a dozen of them in a half circle in a lot somewhere. I checked them out. They’re $960 a month. Not including utilities. For a shipping container.
Also yeah no parking.
From what I read, the shipping container thing was a terrible idea because they aren’t that spacious especially when you still have to insulate them and guess what medal is really good at transferring.
Shipping containers are a bad idea because 1) you need to cut holes for doors/windows and that destroys the stack ability, 2) any shipping container old enough to not be resellable (and therefore costly) is not in a good condition to make a house out of, 3) you still need a foundation and pipes/power so you’re not saving that much money compared to a wood frame, and 4) steel sucks at insulation like you said (not to mention shipping containers don’t have eaves).
The talk about containers as housing made me think about how at least here in Sweden we use modular baracks that can quickly be assembled at job sites, they contain everything from offices, to showers, to kitchens, to toilets, to personal rooms and more.
These have wooden walls, are insulated, can easily be put up with interior doors between the modules, you can stack them, some even have interior staircases.
These are insanely common here, if you need to cheaply house people, using these modular units seems far better than using containers.
I am sure there would be a market for redeveloping units into apartments.
Tbh we totally have these in the USA too, people here just get really excited about tiny houses and shipping container homes for some reason
Oof. There’s a place not too far from me that turned shipping containers into some experience motel thing. Also expensive. I’m sure there’s some novelty in sleeping in a poorly insulated, poorly ventilated metal box, but certainly not one I’d pay a premium for
Shipping containers are horrible for that. They’re metal so they rust and people that convert them tend to get older ones in bad shape. They don’t breathe so you have to worry about ventilation and sealing the metal before even building otherwise they start to rust even quicker.
Theres basically no cost savings to using one compared to building the exact same space using stick-frame construction. Theres a reason why stick-frame is the reigning champion for affordable homes after millennia of evolution. It’s really the best way (in the North American climate) to build a cheap house. Things like how comfortable, energy efficient, safe are all matters of addressing the local climate and there are solutions to all those issues.
- Cold climates get more insulation and the plumbing is ran in interior walls to protect against freezing, the foundation goes down below the frost line.
- Stick frame is infinitely customizable and even micro homes can be made (usually its an issue of the locality prohibiting such small housing.)
- Live in tornado alley? We can add a tornado shelter under your garage floor if you don’t want to build a full basement. Living in Florida where you can’t dig a basement cause the water table is so high but you want protection from hurricane winds? Well we can build with hurricane screws which hold everything together better and even add metal storm shutters to windows.
About how much overall cost does hurricane proofing a house add to buliding it? Would the same techniques for hurricane proofing work in tornado zones (barring a direct hit)?
Not really sure. Some stuff like the hurricane screws is something typically only for new builds. Stuff like storm shutters are fairly common add-ons in Florida. All these tweaks are added costs, adding extra insulation in colder climates adds costs too but the point is that modern construction techniques have evolved to address pretty much every scenario you can think of. Thats why things like shipping container houses are stupid.
I was thinking in terms of new builds. I learned about Intermittant Bracing and circumstances allowing I’ll build my next house if at all possible.
No, tornadoes are localized decimation, hurricanes are much larger but do less targeted damage. I’ve seen houses survive hurricanes, many do. If your house took a direct hit from a tornado without need for massive repairs you consider that your miracle.
Edit: apparently there are light damage tornadoes. The Enhanced Fujita Scale is used to describe tornado intensity in destruction. Ultimately though the point remains, that tornadoes are a lot more likely to do more direct wind damage to whatever they hit
the problem from hurricanes is mostly flooding, where most of the damage comes from.
I’m a fan of tiny homes. It’s a credible way to address property price increases. Its one of the few measures that can increase supply, and simply the availability of these cheaper options can take some of the heat out of the market for more expensive options.
That said, these only have 3 small windows each?
I feel like apartments solve all these problems, with the added benefit that you can use part of the building’s footprint or underground space for parking and commercial space
Doesn’t look like an issue if you pull straight in. Pull all the way up and you can have a guest over, though they’ll probably stick out into the sidewalk a bit. Maybe not the best place to host a gentleman/lady caller, but humans gonna human.
