Tiny Homes Alternatives

Don't know why you're down voted. I've looked into my fair share of tiny houses and vanlife builds, and they all have one thing in common: it's either amateuristic (don't get me wrong, I love it, but the quality and looks ain't there), or it's superdeluxe comfy/beautiful and completely forgetting about all the hassle around it. I mean, one needs land and permission to put a 'house' somewhere.There seems nothing in between. So now I'm look

I really want one of these and I don't know why. I'm struggling to come up with uses for this other than for AirBNB style short term rental places or pre-planned communities for helping homeless people get back on their feet or something. Doesn't seem as portable as a mobile home, and doesn't really have enough of a rustic look for me to want to consider this as a cabin.I feel like I'm missing a big use case here, but unless I planned to live in this full time, what a

Isn't this just a fancy mobile home?

I can be insulated. People have built small houses from marine containers for long time.

This seems a lot like glamping and I wouldn't really call it a "home" but more power to them. I'd love any alternative to an overpriced house in the current market.

I'm sure there could be al sorts of interesting applications for this if it was cheap or if it was relatively easy to transport . Teenagers, parents, renters, students, vacation homes, tourist flats.But I don't see why this is better/different from having a unit or cabin built by a builder. You can do this even in the bay area. The only difference is they call it a shed.

that's actually brilliant - possible way to stay somewhere cheap, but be safe and protected from the weather! could also help with the homeless problem

why not repurpose those rigs into housing? there are refugees looking for homes, or 1%ers that want to live where there are no refugees.

Reminds me of: http://www.fastcodesign.com/3042869/tiny-homes-big-problems-...

Those "Tiny" houses do it already. We have the technology.