The West Is the Best for Micro-Housing

The tiny house movement is nationwide but four cities lead the country in their development. Micro-housing is now a staple of new home construction, presenting new challenges for builders used to working on a larger scale. And even if the western part of the country is still the prime area for such undersized homes and […]

Tiny Houses Soon to Hit the Quarter Century Mark

It may not be quite the darling of social media, HGTV and the counterculture but the tiny home movement is about to mark a quarter-century and continues to appeal to a certain homeowner. In 1999, two years after building his own first tiny house, Northern Californian Jay Shafer founded the Tumbleweed Tiny House Co., generally […]