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Tiny house neighborhoods for the unhoused
We at the Millennial House Lab are huge supporters of a recent trend to house the unhoused with tiny house neighborhoods. A great example is Quixote Village in Olympia, Washington: Quixote Village grew...
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The commune is back, with a startup twist
The commune is back, with a startup twist and $7.3 million to spend. Fast Company has a new article on Common, a new startup that leases apartments and turns them into co-housing communities: Common...
View ArticleSpur Freedom
Despite the growing excitement around the movement, the regulations surrounding tiny house living — such as minimum square footage requirements for living accommodations — are hard to navigate in most...
View ArticleGrants for Grads
States have begun to use housing finance incentives to keep Millennials in state. Check out this 2009 article from Cleveland.com about “Grants for Grads” in Ohio: State officials are hoping to entice...
View ArticleThe inspiration for Giveaway.house
Giveaway.house is our project aimed at community funding the construction of tiny houses. Here is the tweet that inspired it all: An essay contest will determine the new owner of the Center Lovell Inn...
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The first Getaway house has arrived!
A few months ago, we at the Millennial Housing Lab had an idea: to grow the tiny house movement, let’s build some tiny houses, place them on beautiful rural land and rent them by the night to city...
View ArticleTreehugger promotes Getaway
Treehugger, a media platform dedicated to “driving sustainability mainstream,” just covered Getaway in a new slideshow on their site. Check it out here:...
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A big launch week for Getaway.house!
The Millennial Housing Lab is serious when it calls itself an action lab: we have no intention of just publishing papers and hoping housing possibilities create themselves. Rather, we are devoted to...
View ArticleThe Millennial Commune
The New York Times just ran a feature on the growing trend of Millennial communes: Pure House is among a handful of businesses that are renting rooms at a premium in exchange for access to amenities, a...
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The Lorraine has launched!
Turns out our first project — Getaway, which places tiny houses in the woods and rents them out by the night to urbanites hoping to test drive tiny house living and unplug from the digital grind —...
View ArticleRecycling Kitchens?
The New York Times recently ran an interesting story on ways recycling luxury kitchens can lower the cost of housing: In New York, it’s no secret that some buyers of multimillion-dollar homes are...
View ArticleLegal headaches
We at the Lab recently came upon a recent story in a Michigan newspaper with a disheartening title: “Tiny house turns into big headache for Michigan man.” We were expecting it to be about how tiny...
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Informal Office’s new tiny house village for the unhoused
The folks at Informal Office, a design practice located in Lexington, Kentucky, recently sent the Lab information on their new plan for a tiny house village for the unhoused. Below is photos and...
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Getaway in the news
The Lab’s first project, Getaway, is off to a great start. We brought the Clara house, our third tiny house, to the Harvard Innovation Lab’s Hubweek event. A BostInno reporter took a tour and did a...
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Housing and Friendship
In Vox this week, David Roberts has a great piece on the connection between housing and friendship. In addressing why the role of friends tapers off in our middle years, he shines the spotlight on...
View ArticleMassachusetts Regulatory Review = Tiny House Opportunity
We at the Lab received this message from a group working to #LegalizeTiny in the Cape/Islands area of Massachusetts: On March 31, 2015 Governor Baker issued Executive Order #562 commissioning a...
View ArticleAdult Dorms: Microunits + Community
At the Lab, we are always interested in ways that micro-units (be they in apartments or tiny houses) and community-building mix. We were naturally excited to see a recent Atlantic article on “Dorms...
View ArticleGetaway in the spotlight
Getaway, our effort to build and share tiny houses in the woods, has been in the news these past few weeks: CNN: “Sure, living in a tiny house full-time may sound daunting, but renting a wee retreat...
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Tiny house villages for people without houses: a winter roundup
A series of tiny house villages for people without houses have been in the news recently. Here’s a roundup: Alternet has an article on Dignity Village in Portland, which is governed by a...
View ArticleThe Millennial Housing Lab Network
We have often mentioned that we have wanted to build a network of thinkers and practitioners who are interested in and/or working on innovative housing projects. We feel such a network could help...
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