{"id":13187,"date":"2019-09-16T13:11:43","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T18:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/?p=13187"},"modified":"2019-09-16T15:25:46","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T20:25:46","slug":"tiny-home-hipsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/editorials\/tiny-home-hipsters\/","title":{"rendered":"Sadly, the tiny home movement has morphed into an elitist badge of honor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Though they probably didn\u2019t intend the correlation at the time, whomever first said \u201cLess is more\u201d could have easily been referring to the tiny home movement in America.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve cultivated a strange fascination with small things in grandiose settings, and the latest gimmick to grace the “tiny home” movement<\/a> is no exception – it’s a 3D printed tiny home in California that’s merely 300 square feet in size and sells for $250,000 on land valued at over $5M. <\/p>\n

The land in question serves as a refuge for tech giants who just want to get back to nature, albeit inside of a tiny air-conditioned property. They’re marketing the “Sleeping Pod” as an efficient place that runs exclusively on Tesla batteries (ooh), and it’s a final nail in the coffin of a movement that started as a means of efficiency and sustainability, now morphing into catering to the mega wealthy.<\/p>\n

Bucking the city in favor of no light pollution and agricultural-themed living is understandable, and no one needs that kind of respite like the people this site attracts.<\/p>\n

But, like\u2026 y\u2019all know that tents are a thing, right?<\/p>\n

We\u2019re past the point of being wildly confused that someone would ever pay a premium to live in a significantly smaller house; in fact, millennials and their parents alike seem to idolize the notion \u2014 one that, absent its public allure, might still be viable as an affordable, sustainable, comfortable alternative to traditional living.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, it seems like you\u2019ll need to own a social media service or three if you want a shot at America\u2019s latest frugal fascination.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s worth pointing out that sustainable, cheap tiny housing does exist \u2014 just not here. In other areas of the world, 3D-printed homes made from recycled materials can be built for under $10,000 in less than a week, and sustainable sources of energy such as solar- and wind-based power (while not initially cheap to implement) are investments which easily pay for themselves once they\u2019ve been installed.<\/p>\n

In an ironic twist, the ability to afford significantly less room for the opportunity to experience minimalism at its dumbest is now one reserved only for the rich. <\/p>\n

While the technology powering Monterey Peninsula\u2019s Galini Sleeping Pod, dubbed the \u201csustainable airstream of our time\u201d is inspiring, the elitist price tag attached to it is not.<\/p>\n

The bottom line resides in common sense: sustainability shouldn\u2019t be a privilege, and it shouldn\u2019t be marketed as a luxury. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(EDITORIAL) Prepare to roll your eyes all the way back into your head, because the latest tiny home project in Cali puts the movement even more out of reach of the average American.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337375,"featured_media":13188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[254],"tags":[1234,1710,1773],"class_list":["post-13187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editorials","tag-real-estate-news","tag-sustainability","tag-tiny-homes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/08\/tiny-home-movement.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/337375"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13187"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14271,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13187\/revisions\/14271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}