Aunt Nancy sent this in, and wants to see something like it in SD – hopefully there will be many creative housing solutions for young and old alike:
http://www.fourlightshouses.com/pages/the-napoleon-complex
DENSITY: 16–22 houses-per-acre
SIZE: 40 -70 beautiful tiny houses (RVs), each up to 400s.f., plus sleeping lofts
AMENITIES: A 800 – 1600 s.f. common house, private gardens, 1.5 parking spaces per house, shared outdoor space, private storage units, prominent pedestrian walkways out front with parking out back.
LOCATION: Northern California
ZONING: RV Park
INTENT: To create a contagious model for responsible, affordable, desirable housing.
PROPOSED OPENING: 2015
http://www.fourlightshouses.com/pages/the-napoleon-complex
I think something like this only works in an area with a lot of really cheap land.
Also probably not someplace you would want to start or have a family.
Anyway for SD I think a condo complex (maybe even single room condo’s) is a much more efficient use of limited resources.
Would never work…
There would need to be some draconian HOA rules + maintenance crews + rules on number of occupants + number of cars per household + enforcement security.
Suddenly the 200k 800sqft house has a $1000 HOA + $500 trailer park rental fee.
It would take a nice land owner who allows an informal hippie commune without demanding a profit.
The minute that greed is introduced, it’s over.
This one is being planned in Sonoma for retirees. I consider it an upscale senior mobile home park.
There is one my friend’s mom lives in in Indy, and they love it. Better than an apartment, nicer than a typical mobile home.
Let’s go find some land Jim!
There’s a ton of boomer’s reaching retirement age, who won’t be benefitting by an an inheritance, and many are in debt, and haven’t saved to retire reasonably. Quite a number are a few missed checks away from being homeless.
When these people can no longer work, they’re gonna need housing. Can’t have them just wandering around. Rather than privately owned parks, government subsidies will make these contraptions more realistic.
I agree with jiji, this scheme will require cheap land.
Good Moooorning, Hesperia!
RV parks exist, why is this revolutionary? Because it will be more expensive?
They are cuter than an average trailer.
“Solutions” like this only illustrate the insanity of current housing prices. Such things usually mark a top.
Simply more of “anything but traditional suburban patterns.” People don’t become architects and urban planners to maintain the status quo or to not Question the way things are done.
Btw urban planners consider 16-22 DU per acre medium density. Total disconnect with their service area populations.