Cheap housing gets ignored in the media and by the cultural side of life in this country. Yet millions search it out and create it and solve the puzzle on their own and elaborate its possibilities for good living. And their solutions are by and large ignored or snubbed.
$200k new homes are considered a kind of norm while a whole industry springs up providing folks with $20k homes instead. Which aren’t considered “real” homes by some.
And the post-War boomers often grew up in huge neighborhoods of 900 sq/ft houses. Are houses that size being built today for those who have less money?
I want to explore and present the basics and variations on the various levels in these options.
Also, it seems that often today a thrifty solution has to run against local zoning, which tends to have a desire to force a community to be upwardly mobile. Everywhere you turn communities say “Only rich folk can build here!” Those folks need to be gotten around, defeated, thwarted, and life needs to flourish despite them.
So, let’s run the gamut: tent, shed, cabin, polebarn, storage unit, travel trailer, mobile home, modular home, pre-fab, warehouse, industrial space, old house.
C’mon, let’s check it out!
