TIKKU – a micro-apartment building with a foot-print of one car parking place
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> Tikku is a safe-house for neo-archaic biourbanism, a contemporary cave for a modern urban nomad.
> Tikku is self-sufficient.… Fresh water is carried in.… Modern man has to die a bit in order to be reborn.
hahaha wow thx but no thx
...That is because it is wood. Please stop talking about thick plywood like it is carbon fiber.
They are rather simple, in the last one it was literally a case of "get the walls delivered, put in second floor and then a roof on top" and it was done.
Also very energy efficient houses.
There is really no reason why everyone can't have 1000+ sq ft. 2000+ sq ft. This is a crap response to a fake scarcity.
San Francisco downtown real estate sells for $1000 per square foot. Shouldn't that problem sell itself? It is incredibly lucrative to build housing in San Francisco, yet it (somehow!) isn't happening to an adequate degree.
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Trailer parks exist for a reason. They're the size of shipping containers and therefore are shipped and constructed very efficiently. They're standardized and manufactured on a mass scale.
The cheap, affordable, practical house has been invented: its called a trailer park. The question is simply how to market them.
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If you have $20k you can buy a home. That's a fact.
The main issue is that the US Society as a whole uses cost-of-living as a differentiator. Those who own $500,000 single family homes want to ensure that everyone around them also is paying ~$500,000ish for their homes, because money is a crude estimator for crime levels and educational opportunity.
If you live in an area filled with $20k trailer homes, the assumption is that these areas are filled with criminals and drug lords.
With that said: cost-of-living is a differentiator in reality, because taxes are ultimately collected from the area. Richer areas can afford better schools, while poorer areas with lower land values won't have the same infrastructure. And unfortunately, building "mixed income neighborhoods" always causes a mess because of NIMBY.
The issue is one of societal expectations. Regardless, the question of "how to build cheap, dignified, affordable housing" is well solved in America. Trailer-park homes have power and running water.
The main issue IMO, is marketing and figuring out how to build "mixed income" developments without without making rich people feel like they're living next to poor people. As silly as it sounds, if this problem can be solved we'd solve a lot of issues...
Prefabs and trailers are two different things, but for the sake of argument, you seem to think that for $20k you can buy a trailer and plop it down in a park. Someone owns that park. They expect rent, on top of the mortgage payment you're making for the trailer.
Trailers are cheaply built and depreciate rapidly. Repairs are not always straightforward and often require specialized parts. Things you take for granted as being standard in size often aren't, which forces you to buy overpriced replacements from a dealer instead of just grabbing one at Home Depot. (Prefabs, not so much.)
You own the house, not the land. If you stop paying rent, you get evicted. But you get to keep the trailer, right? Even if you still have enough money to move it, you don't own any land to put it on. You can't just park it at Wal-Mart while you figure out what to do. So you're forced to liquidate it for pennies (probably to the same landlord, who in turn rents it out) and now you're homeless and $20k poorer.
Trailer parks are not the answer to lack of homeownership. They are a more complicated form of renting that net you all of the responsibilities of homeownership and none of the equity. The sorts of people who choose to live there do so for a reason; if it were truly cheap or affordable every trailer park would be packed with hipsters. You can't market such an abysmal deal to any working individual with a brain.
The right answer would be to forget the trailer park idea and go buy a plot of land on the side of a mountain in Montana. You'd need to install septic, dig a well, buy a gas tank, etc. before it's truly livable, which raises the upfront cost by about $75k. But as you develop you build equity.
There is no simple, affordable solution unless you want to live like Eric Rudolph.
Never claimed them to be.
Some trailer parks allow you to rent the trailer, all together without purchasing it. The $20,000 figure was more about the cost of manufacturing these homes on a wide scale.
As you said, rent prices in trailer parks can be large ($500+ / month), which can be as much as actual homes nearby. But that's the nature of real estate: the value is in the location, location, location, and not necessarily in the home itself.
In any case, the raw material cost of a mobile / manufactured home is anywhere from $20k from the low end to $100k to the higher end.
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> You can't market such an abysmal deal to any working individual with a brain.
In my view, its no worse than the deals given on a Condo with $hundreds in HOA fees. Trailer Homes tend to be much cheaper than most Condos packages too.
There are some bad deals out there, there are probably some good deals out there. Its all a matter of expectations, community, and yes, location. Just like any other Real Estate deal.
"The cheap, affordable, practical house has been invented: its called a trailer park. The question is simply how to market them." Perhaps I misinterpreted?
> In my view, its no worse than the deals given on a Condo with $hundreds in HOA fees. Trailer Homes tend to be much cheaper than most Condos packages too.
Not saying condos are worth it, but this isn't a fair comparison. Condos make sense in some circumstances-- they do retain some equity so you're not just hemorrhaging rent money, and the community shares the cost of significant repairs. If you can get a decent one and live in it for a few years without getting hit by a special assessment, they're a viable alternative to renting long-term.
Buying into a trailer park only makes sense if you consider all of your income disposable and intend to die there. They're poor investments. There's no such thing as a good or bad deal on something so worthless.
Another option is to just buy an RV and/or a camper + a truck to pull it.
The survivalist crowd has done quite a bit of this -- buying remote rural lots with good water and farm land and setting up a homestead.
"Tikku...can be erected" "Many Tikkus can grow side-by-side like mushrooms" "Where ever a car can go, Tikku can grow."
etc.
And, no pictures of the inside? That's probably the most interesting, and most important part.
Stand, yes....until a strong breeze catches it.
Yet they've slapped it down right in the middle of a pedestrian area - kind of defeats the message I think.