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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Tiny home"”.
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The case for more American tiny home communities
… challenge for current and future generations of homeowners. The issue of affordable housing dates to the 1930s during the Great Depression. Attempts to provide affordable housing have been implemented with limited success by several acts of legislation that ebb and flow with the political …
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The Ecological Footprints of Tiny Home Downsizers: An Exploratory Study
… Recently, there has been a surge of interest in tiny homes characterized as livable dwelling units typically under 400 square feet. However, there is a gap in scholarly knowledge that formally examines how the environmental impact and behaviors of tiny home occupants change after downsizing from …
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Operationalizing a New Method for Defining and Scaling Social Innovations Using Tiny Home Communities as a Case Study
… An example of an emergent social innovation, tiny home communities are gaining traction as a more economically, socially, and environmentally favorable response to homelessness and inadequacies in the current shelter and housing system. The use of tiny homes communities (that is, intentional …
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Consumer Well-Being: A Typology and Examination of Voluntary Simplicity
… with the analysis of formal interviews with tiny home owners, who take a holistic approach to voluntary simplicity, towards a framework of typical tiny home owners and discover the motivating factors for such a lifestyle choice. The second step is analyzing how these motivating factors may …
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The Intersection of Traumatic Brain Injury and Homelessness
… higher among individuals experiencing homelessness compared to the general population. Up to half of individuals experiencing homelessness may have a TBI. Accurate prevalence rates of TBI among individuals experiencing homelessness are difficult to obtain due to different methods of …
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The Poverty of Simplicity: Austerity, Alienation, and Tiny Houses
<p>Tiny houses – stand-alone, fully functional dwellings generally between 100 and 400 square-feet – are increasingly popular in the United States. The degradation of working class life wrought through neoliberal policy and then punctuated by the Great Recession propels this popularity. Next to …