The Dark Side Of Tiny Homes
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- Опубліковано 20 чер 2024
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Now this is a video that I didn't really want to make, but I feel it's necessary. As much as I have a truly deep love of the tiny house movement, I can't ignore that there is a dark side to all of this and that is what I would like to explore in this video.
My intention with this video isn't to put anyone off buying or building a tiny home. It's to take an honest look at some of the issues around the tiny house movement and also the wider economy that makes tiny homes so necessary. I hope you find the information here valuable.
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This is not my usual kind of video. Over the years documenting the tiny house movement though, it's been hard for me to ignore some of the negative aspects, both of the tiny house movement itself and also the wider world circumstances that make the tiny house movement necessary. I haven't shared much of my personal philosophy with you before and I'm weirdly nervous making this video. But I hope you find some of this information here valuable. Thank-you for watching. Thank-you for supporting the channel. WIth Love, Bryce & Rasa
Really appreciate your honesty. Pros/cons all matter. Keep up the great work of promoting a wonderful option for affordable living!
Thanks for making this! Are you able to tag the parking video you mentioned? Thanks!
It had to be said... Thank you
Thank you for this video, hasn’t put me off a tiny house but it has reminded me to investigate it and cover my assets
This is very helpful to hear the troubles (which I believe are changing as they come to light) and a bit of your philosophy of life. Thank you for taking the risk to do so.
What I have heard of, seen, and experienced has led me to the perspective that the main reason that we are here on Earth is to create, to push the barriers of possibility, and in order to do so, we need contrasts, challenges, the dark and the light. If we can use all those challenges to envision what it is that we could do better, have better, be better, and create more wonderfully, then we can bless each and every challenge for helping us push to the new.
I am still learning and growing. I can tell you, though, that my best experiences in life have followed being open minded, open hearted, reaching for the win win, and allowing the Universe to help me create whatever I can imagine, with my joy and gratitude assisting in the process. Sometimes it takes me a while to get out of the dumps and see all this, but when I do, I can feel such an inner shift and somehow things also start to shift, often in ways I wouldn’t have imagined could happen.
Bless you and Rasa on your amazing and generous journey in life. I so much appreciate the two of you and what you’ve been doing, and mostly how absolutely positive you’ve been with everything, including with challenges.
"Our lawmakers are failing in their duty of care to their citizens". Best description of government itself I have ever heard.
Right Wing Governments
@@user-zj9tl5tr2oThat does seem to be the tendency yes. Get that child BORN but then neglect to feed or house it. Hmm makes no sense.
Also left. Two wings, same bird...
Sadly, I think many of our leaders aren't failing to care for their citizens. They are succeeding at selling out their citizens for the benefit of their donors.
With all due respect, don't blame politicians, blame ourselves. We let politicians rule us, we let them dictate their will on us.
It is said in an old saying: 'I can buy anything,'' said Gold. ''I can take anything,'' said Damascus Steel.
Gold is the weapon of rich people.
Damascus Steel is the weapon of rulers.
While we are asking ourselves what kind of weapon we should use, do not be fooled by terms like democracy, laws...
Presidents, representatives, judges always want us to play our game (in this case, to live our life) by their rules.
Please stop being horrified by the idea that the government does not care about the citizens. Just look at the real life: Laws are created by the rulers, to serve them the rulers and their allies who are people with a lot of money, not the ones who choose to be ruled or to remain being ruled.
ps: only people with a slave mentality would hastily jump to the thought of the term "anarchism" after reading this comment.
I'm in Canada. There is a tiny house owner in a town near me who owns his own acreage and has lived in his tiny for seven years. He has been ordered to vacate his residence as it is illegal to live in it. He had to build a home on a foundation to live on his own land. It all comes down to property tax. Its all about fleecing the citizens 🤬
Hopefully this person can their residence retro approved, sometimes you need to make peace with the local council and work it out.
I'm assuming he then built a 10 x 10 shed with a bed and sink in it and told them to kick rocks?
You can put a tiny home on trailer onto a foundation
It's criminal - government overstepping at its finest.
It's the property taxes... imagine buying your own home and land, or buying land and building a home and then having to essentially pay rent to live on your own property.. forever, until you d¡e.. 👀🙄
I built a tiny house on my sons farm. I have never loved a place more than this one.
Only allowed o e kitchen per farm here. So silly. So many build an unnecessary mansion.
can 50 other people come to your sons farm and do the same no? thought not
@@nikkster01would you want 50 strangers on your land? Thought not!
@@caso6481 Build one anyway. That is BS.
@@nikkster01Theoretically a rich guy could buy a plot of land and build a bunch of tiny homes. The downside is I'm basically describing a trailer park that people wouldn't actually want to live in.
Welcome to predatory capitalism.
Greenland punished and jailed their bankers for predatory lending Watch Inside job narrated by matt damon
The government incentivizing property ownership as a tax write off or tax shelter is NOT economic freedom.
It’s just one of many government interventions, supposedly meant to “help” but that actually makes things worse.
Winner-take-all elections hand a lot of power to lobbyists, who clamor for these interventions.
Most of these interventions help people who own property. Not people who are trying to own property.
And ending these interventions would make housing much more affordable. And current owners would be hurt by that, obviously.
Even the 30 mortgage is one of these interventions. Nobody lends money for that long at a fixed rate. Not when government inflates the currency. It’s a subsidy, paid for indirectly by everyone holding dollars and suffering inflation.
@@albeit1 no kidding right?
@@boathemian7694 I agree.
We would be a lot better off using proportional representation in the House. I think the founders made a mistake there. It gave us the two party system and bad choices for most people.
Smaller parties that do not have to appeal to half the voters would lead to better representation. And a lot less power for monied interests.
@@albeit1 same with rent subsidies if the government stopped giving rent subsidies the rents would come down to where people can afford to pay rent ... like water leveling out ... the rents would need to come down or landlords would end up with empty money draining rental units
You've gone from tiny home enthusiast to practically doing tiny home journalism here. This is one of the most informative resources on the internet about tiny homes, and it is very appreciated!
Wasn’t there a link in thrown in there as well?
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Thank you for NOT ignoring the negative aspects of tiny homes. Having a platform of over 4.5 million subscribers you’re in a position to potentially make a difference, so thank you for bringing these issues to the forefront! 🏠
That is what I was thinking… great video for helping all aspects come out and massive numbers of people exposed… just the thinking of solutions can help power the changes.
Thank you for this informative information.
Government base downfall of the USA. Thank you for speaking truth. Blessings.
I couldn’t have said it any better myself. ❤
Thank You Bryce 🙏🏻
You just gave everyone new to tiny living the basics of The Tiny Living Bible. Absolutely hands down the best advice up front from a Professional. ❤
Agree with everything you just said.
As an architect in the USA, the problem I have with tiny homes aren't the tiny homes themselves it's the people building the homes. You have people building 500sqft homes and selling them for 200k. However, since 200k is the cheapest house in the area it of course sells. Or you have online companies selling 300k 1/1 homes. The problem I have with all of this is the tiny home movement was all about being financially free. To own your own home without the financial burden of a mortgage. However, there are people in tiny homes still having to have a mortgage, because of greed.
Absolutely!
Should they stop building homes? Seems to me the problem is actually just an opportunity for a person to start a company that builds more affordable homes and they will get the business.
I'm assuming with your job you don't negotiate for the lowest possible pay, right? Does it make you greedy for wanting to maximize the reward you get for your work?
@@dustinabc Homes will become affordable once we successfully stop building any of them. Any day now.
@@dustinabc I don't negotiate pay at all. My company sells pre made floor plans specifically 3/2 homes that's range from 1200-1800 sqft.
We also sell custom floor plans. Our rate is $1.00 a sqft. If they want a 3D virtual model it's $2.00.
I'm not saying you can't make your money. By all means make it. But we have gone from contractors making 30k on a home to making 100k on a home. There absolutely is a market for affordable housing. But if they know a 800k home will sell just as easily as a 350k home of course they will build a larger house and probably double the profit.
In order to come up with a "fair price" for tiny homes, please share your dollar per Sq ft price you concluded was the metric for determining price of a tiny house? You can not use the same $/ft for tiny home costs for tiny homes vs traditional larger site-built homes. They (traditional homes) are bigger in an effort to lower the price per foot of the house. If you have an exponentially smaller structure, obviously the labor is similar to build a tiny house vs a traditional site built home, the cost per foot is increased by the smaller Sq ft price simply because of the smaller foot print to amortize cost to build across. Think about it like a desktop computer vs an iPhone... Which one costs you more to build yourself???
Lived tiny in Canada and am still so frustrated that our municipal and provincial governments would rather fight tiny home owners than admit that they fill a MASSIVE need in our communities. While not the only answer, tiny homes do serve a very large part of a solution for housing worldwide. Thank you for this video, and thank you for sharing your platform to bring this issue out into the open.
The municipalities want to preserve their high tax revenues while evading responsibility for being a major cause of the housing crisis.
@@stevestruthers6180 Strong Towns and others have pointed out that municipalities' net yield...taxes minus costs to the municipality...is generally way better on denser, lower cost housing than on single family homes on large lots. Decades of taxes on the latter are often insufficient to rebuild the road, water and sewer when needed, let alone all the other municipal costs. Municipalities are financially better off with denser, lower cost structures, as counter intuitive as it seems. Apparently there are a number of analyses showing this.
@@bearcubdaycare I think you're right, but explain to me why cities won't allow anything other than single family homes to be built, or expensive high-rise condos that only an increasing minority can afford?
If it doesn't boil down to money, could the only alternative answer be politics?
@@stevestruthers6180 neighbor complaints.
May I ask which province you live in? I'm in BC and am thinking buying a patch of land/building tiny home might be my only hope for housing. I haven't started my research yet, still brainstorming my options/figuring out where I can live that meets familial and job needs.
I’d love to see more tiny/smaller homes for disabled people. An actual tiny home won’t accomodate a wheelchair or modified bathroom ( not my husband who’s 6 9’) but when we built we thought smaller not tiny. It’s about unique design and we took some concepts from tiny into a smaller home. Disabled people proportionally earn less, have higher expenses and have less housing options available due to accessibility
Yes! Our disability “benefits” are well below poverty-level. It’s disgusting, quite frankly. And we’re always left out of conversations about issues that impact us most.
amen to this! i'd been following thr TH movement for a bit longer than Bryce has been on topic and had to scrap 99% of the ideas found bc they're not disability friendly...lofts come to mind. that said, there are quite a few basic designs that are readily adaptable, often by simply taking the plunge to move to a 10' wide trailer. or even 12' wide.
doesn't help w/ costs, both initial and long term, but it does open some design options
not that it means anything to me anymore bc of a now terminal diagnosis. but dreams can help inspire some modicum of hope (misplaced as it ends up being)...
@jeffstormer2547 dreams are always worth having brother.
There are 340 sq ft accessible units that have been designed. Not on wheels but still under 400 sqft.
@@truthhearit1471My knuckles wouldn't like that!
Not a tiny home owner but 100% agree! A safe shelter is a basic human right and governments who make this difficult should be held accountable for crimes against basic human rights.
Ok... Lets think about what you said logically.
I agree with you that human shelter is really nice, but a right? Who exactly has to pay for other people to have housing? How does it all get built fairly? How does that affect industry? Does the government play favoritism in who gets to build the housing? The materials? The suppliers?
It's not ethical to steal from someone else to house another, and that's what "housing is a human right" does.
What really needs to happen is government regulations need to go way down, and zoning laws need to go way down so that people can build what they need to build in a free market.
@@hhjhj393They have the right to build one if they have the means and property to do so. They should be allowed to build whatever they want in their own property. Property rights are the issue here.
@hhjhj393 so if said government/ superannuation funds, stops you from accessing your superannuation, your own money, ..stating that being homeless isn't considered "hardship" grounds to access said funds? Is that not a human right?... l speak from personal experience unfortunately.
@@hhjhj393 I don't think they meant right in that sense. From their post they seem to imply that the person has the resources to do it. I think you are both saying the same thing in the end just coming from different directions a tad
Well said, Bryce. Politicians often own multiple investment properties, and create the tax laws that benefit them. They take donations from corporations who don't pay tax. Time to stand up to those who prefer us to remain homeless than actually create solutions.
'I have very little trust in the government, no love for banks, and no respect for paper money." So fucking based. My interest in your channel just grew to new levels man. Love to see it.
Amen!!!!! I'm so frustrated with the situation in Canada. I feel we're kept from tiny homes in order to just protect developers who are friends with government leaders. You are so right that governments don't care about their populace.
YES!!!!!!!!!!!! Same! I live in Montreal and rent's have increased 22% in the past 4 years I read on The Globe and Mail just yesterday!
This is a video we all need to see.
Yes, I totally agree with you. All levels of our Canadian governments need a huge wake up call. Answers to homelessness and home affordability exist & need to be acknowledged, accepted & acted upon. Bryce is totally on target. And the comment here about politicians & developers is certainly accurate in Ontario. 🇨🇦
I guess you fought together with the truckers vs WEF?!
@@pernillebendixen1143 Don't start this crap. Just don't.
@@pdq5465 Agreed!
In Australia a council told a woman living in a tiny house , was told to sell the tiny house and jump onto the list of social housing , that list is several thousand people on that list while the government, pays 25 million to consultants and no surprises nothing changes . It’s ridiculous.
Spot on, thank you.
Australia is at the forefront of a 1984 Global Dictatorship.
Yeah ive been on the waiting list for 13 years!
The entire town of Paradise, CA was burned down by a wildfire. A family was living in an RV on their burned out cleared off lot. Someone came along and told them that living in an RV was lot allowed. A young woman bought a lot in West Sacramento, CA and put her small home on it. West Sacramento won't hook up her utilities. She uses a composting toilet and gets come electricity from solar panels. A kind neighbor lets her get water from an outdoor water faucet. She's been living like that for over 5 years. These are two examples of the exclusion and intolerance that are as wrong as wrong can be. They are violating freedom and the golden rule.
it reminds me of an episode of Utopia.
You are 100% correct - it is immorally wrong for our government to enable the out of reach price cost of housing. There is no justification for this at all.
It's more "The Dark Side of Society" rather than "Tiny Homes"... We have a deeply exploitative financial system in place, with politics that appeal to capital rather than the well-being of citizens. What sucks even more is that it feels like most civil rights movement have gone to die with individualism, internet, social media and isolation of people in conjunction with the influence of capital interests trying to confuse the discourse. People should be outraged at this point, mass protests raging... but instead people just silently accepting the current situation, trying to adapt around the problem instead of demanding a true change. That's the biggest issue, how people have become so disincentivized to use our democratic rights to demand change in our societies.
Here, here. We have the technology and resources to feed, clothe, house, educate, and medically care for every human being on this planet… we just don’t have the will.
Yeah heh I wanted to say this video can be summarised as the dark side of tiny homes are the bad elements of the society that they have to be part of.
I think I agree.
"when buying and selling are controlled by the government, the first thing to be bought and sold are the politicians"
-Peter O'Rourke
The gov't should be limited to it's only legitimate function- protecting inalienable rights. Not trying to control markets, or providing social services or utilities to the people.
Good praxis.
@@dustinabc so, in that hypothetical, what about infrastructure? Roads, electricity, water? And what about school accreditation and licenses to practice medicine? And what about the environment and natural resources? I’m being genuine, not snarky.
I'm a community planner in a Rust Belt city and it truly is heartbreaking seeing the obstacles that are arbitrarily thrown up to keep tiny homes from becoming the 21st century answer to a starter home for millions of hardworking people.
Is anyone is supposed to know where a rust belt city is actually located? 😬
Have you thought of doing a presentation with some others to the commission on the benefits of infill and adjoining parcels to make small tiny communities. There are a lot of great communities. They revitalize some areas as well.
@@AnotherJeni4You It's in the North Eastern portion of the USA. It's where our automotive plants were built up and abandoned in the early 80s and its very frozen in winters. It's kind of poor, but extremely built up.
Bravo!
Generally speaking, “Rust Belt” is a US term denoting the industrial area known as the MidWest. Can include the states of (western) Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, parts of Indiana and Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin - all states which years ago had manufacturing and heavy industry as major parts of their economies.
I love the outrage behind your recognition of the homeless issue in this world. Homelessness isn’t a person issue - it’s a lack of affordable housing.
In the USA, there's different causes for homelessness. Many in the city near me are on the streets because of addiction &/or mental health issues. Just giving someone like that a place to live doesn't solve anything. They often can't/won't follow rules or get along with others. It's a complex problem with no single answer.
Yes, and there are vacant buildingsthat culd be turned into shelters, appartments, etc. if only our government had a modicum of care for the poor!!!
@@wendyeames5758 agree. Availability of affordable housing is just one aspect of homelessness. The challenges you mentioned are visible in Australia too. It is not something that can be solved overnight, although it does feel like governments are doing little or nothing to help these people, thankfully, there are volunteer organisations that do what they can to offer them some comfort.
@@ivyclark70millions of ppl prefer this model, which is why help will be slower. Funny how their complaints change when they are they the ones who need help and the charity orgs can't provide enough
Outrage to gain revenue from the sponsor of the video. It's faux outrage. Another UA-cam Grifter.
I 100% agree with you Bryce! I was a local body counsellor for 6 years and one of the main issues I fought for continually was for tiny home, experimental housing eg yurts etc and zoning that allowed for more multi dwellings on a piece of land . It was such hard going and I made only minimal progress. It is insane when we have a HOUSING CRISIS!!! One of the biggest issues councils are paranoid about is neighbour complaints, boundary issues, and allowing inappropriate use of so-called productive rural land use...doesn't seem to count if tiny home owners grow their own gardens. The whole system is stupidly out-of-date and obstructive...
Agreed. My town is working on allowing "accessory dwelling units" (ADUs) as they call them to allow property owners to place essentially tiny homes or similar on their property. Many people have the worry that it's allowing run-down trailers, but I think if they were to see some tiny homes or have some simple rules like RV parks do about appearance, they'll start to change opinions.
This video is not only about dark side of tiny living. This is complete education about many aspects of our economy and tiny houses. Absolutely brilliant educational video make you look at things from different perspectives. THANK YOU
I agree its not the "dark" side its the reality in the tiny home living community
Yeah, it is to go full cirkel on the subject and not leave some very important parts out of the equation!
So thumbs up to this video!
THANK YOU for not just making a cute little video about lack of storage & making your bed in a loft
Bryce, I understand why you were nervous about posting this, but it all needed to be said. Thank you for putting this out there, and for being such an advocate for the little guy. 💙
This is a completely refreshing and honest take on some of the pitfalls of tiny homes. This video is a wonderful public service for anyone considering building or buying a tiny home of any kind. You still stress many positives, but you've laid bare several different aspects to watch out for. Good job, Bryce and Rasa!
I love the mindfulness behind this video. I built a 500 sq ft cabin in 2019 for myself, my daughter and granddaughter to have a safe place with a roof over our head. Put it on 2 acres in Tennessee. We are now in the fight of our life to keep our home. It has been 5 years of unrelenting bullying by wealthy neighbors.
My daughter and granddaughter are now moving out to her fiances home. He was gifted it in his grandmothers will. Still in the country, still a very small school system but they HAVE to move as we appeal a court decision.
I married a lively British gentleman and we purchased a different tiny home, a narrowboat. So much smaller at 165 sq ft of living space but still free. We have all been blessed by your channel, and appreciate your views on the scary aspects pf civil disobedience. Thank you so much for sharing.
Can't stand NIMBYS. Sorry you've had to go through this. Hugs
@susanowens1028,
Love, Light, and Blessings to You and Yours. 🙏😇✨💫🌱🌿🌻🐝🌳🌎💖🙌😺
I’m a TN resident as well, is your property located in a rural county or a suburban county?
TN overall has almost no regulations when it comes to TINY Homes, if your property is located in a rule county that has no building code requirements you should’ve never had to step foot in a court room
@@debracisneroshhp2827
First BIG mistake, NEVER place a tiny home near wealthier people.
Check ZONING LAWS first...ALWAYS
Find land AWAY from this...
why did you have to fight for your home since it’s on your land?
Thank you Bryce. So eloquently and passionately stated. I literally cried. The dark side is not the tiny homes but more so the issues surrounding them.
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Thank you for your dedication with Tiny Homes. Lawmakers and banks are failing in their duty to take care of citizens. It is so hard to live now unless you're rich- That's not fair.
We live in an investor economy which cares little for the social contract. If you add in rising energy and insurance costs as well as growing population--it's obvious small homes and small cars are the new paradigm emerging. Powerful video, thank you.
You are so right. We learn as children that it is essential for all humans to have water, food and shelter - and it seems our governments don’t understand that. We are living in a society that doesn’t care for people.
No your not. people care its the govt that dont
Oh they understand it. They just don’t give a sh!t.
Yet there's a difference between saying humans should have food, water and shalter, and saying that it's the government's responsibility to provide it. Tiny homes can and should be able to help solve the current shortage of housing, and government's goal should be to promote them in areas where they fill a need.
@@TheTewjrI don’t know where you are from, but here in Australia the various tiers of government have instituted laws that make tiny living (even on a trailer) illegal. Lots of places you are not even allowed to have someone living in a caravan on your property.
it is not the government's job to CARE for people, but to SERVE them.
ACCESS to water might be a right, but CLEAN water is not. SOMEBODY must create piping, filters, water catchment, pumps, heck, even chlorine to clean the water. Obtain, purify, distribute....that's not "a right", because you have to PAY someone to do all of that.
Thanks for calling out the injustices of the housing market and saying what needs to be said. As someone who was homeless as a kid, it means a lot to me that people care
In Poland there is not really a tiny house movement but polish gov made not only those houses legal but also you are allowed to build one up to 70 m 2 without building permit. You just register a construction placement if it is permanent (with foundation). However there are popular type of holender houses that unfortunately need the permit. But container houses. Tiny houses. Camping trailers. You are allowed to put them on your land wherever you want on your land with consideration of 4 m separation from the border line of the property. Polish houses in general are average 80/ 90 m 2.
The housing shortage is everywhere and prices are only going up, no matter which country you’re in. This is a very valuable video in addressing the housing problems and while solutions are available - as you’ve been showing us for years - the hoops to jump through are problematic. Same here in Missouri, US, can’t live in a tiny house even on your own land, there has to be a structure on a foundation as a primary and some municipalities dictate for new builds to be more than 1000/1500 sq ft. Thank you for addressing this Bryce!
I live in California USA. In Sacramento there is a community being built (extremely slowly) for the homeless. The tiny homes are basically a tiny shed which could be bought at the big box store. However these "homes" are costing over $100,000 to build. Government is so corrupt and destroy everything they touch.
exactly probably like $2000 to make those sheds and then they claim 100,000 that is crazy....
AGREE
Is 'Government' building the homes, or have contractors came in to do the work, and then those contractors are who are actually fleecing everyone? The sad truth is that bad actors figure out ways to grab these contracts, and then turn around and jack up the prices for every tiny thing they do. They hurt everyone in the process - the taxpayers who fund the projects, and most of all, the citizens in need of such services especially when 10-20 buildings could have been built to house people but the projects were so overpriced that the same amount of money only covered the build for 1. If this is truly happening, alert a journalist to break the story. However, make certain they are very clear to everyone it is the contractors who are fleecing the taxpayers, not the government. The government pays the bill, so this group has found a way to scam and rip off this government service. It's a lot like bad doctors who bill Medicare for services they haven't provided. The fact government medical services are offered is not the problem, the fact there are conartists is the problem.
@@CarolinaCarolina-ph9mxdefinitely! This is common with contractors building for the US military. They have methods to fabricate billing costs, wages for emplyees that don't exist, materials that are not purchased or are diverted to other projects, so many ways of scamming that it is practically done out in the open. Then invoices sent to the government are approved and paid. It is greed and immorality and is deeply entrenched in the business sector.
We really need to all try to make a difference with these ridiculous laws worldwide, causing so much more homelessness. This is an amazing and very necessary video! Thank you.
SPOT ON....
CHANGE WONT EVER EVER HAPPEN, UNTIL WE'RE ONE VOICE.
I see so many homes that go into foreclosure. The banks let them sit to rot. Why not sell at a reasonable price to families that want to be homeowners but, can't afford all the money required.
They would work hard to make repairs just to own a home.
Property taxes are ridiculous. The middle class are becoming families that are living on the streets.
It's just so sad that our Government has fallen to such disaster , all about power and money!!
If our governments won’t do it (and by that, I mean the corporations won’t allow it), then we have to do it. We need to start building each others houses; be it by community banking or volunteering our labor to one another.
For me, the worst thing about tiny homes is by far their necessity. It's fine if you truly want to live a minimalist life but it feels like for most people it's their only way into the housing market. Sometimes the popularising of the entire movement can feel like the elites telling the peasants to just accept their measly lot in life.
Thanks for everything you've done to promote this movement with your sound wisdom, enthusiasm, and masterfully produced channel.
What I hate about Tiny Houses is they are not their own Category when it comes to building codes, inspections and certification, here in the US they are considered either RV'S or park model mobile home, and neither is accurate, Tiny houses are built better.
What I love to see in the Tiny House world is the pride on the faces of the people who built their own Tiny House, or at least did as much of the work as they were capable of.
I agree 100%! I have found those tiny homes built by reputable US Builders to be far superior in quality than many of the garbage tract subdivision traditional homes being build by day laborers who don’t know what the words square an plumb mean. The crap houses by national builders are constructed like absolute garbage.
It boils down to monetary greed. Governments run on money and collect it trough “real estate taxes.”
How do insurance companies regard tinies in the US? Are they a vehicle or a dwelling? I often wonder as you are taking your entire life on the road when you move them so what if you have an accident?
@shazzabelle123 I don't own a tiny house, but if they ate no more then 8.5 ft wide, it's an rv that can be towed under the insurance of the vehicle towing it, wider then 8.5 ft and it's a oark model I don't think insurance is required
@@shazzabelle123 ,
As far as I'm aware(and I'm in the US), THOW are considered 'trailers'__which is why [you] cannot be 'parked' in the same spot for more than 180 days in succession. That's why it is 'illegal' in most cases to be stationery(living) on a plot of land. As a trailer it is not allowed as a permanent place of residence.
Hope this was helpful. 💖🙌😺
Bryce, I want to say that I find it extremely refreshing to see someone who is as genuine and passionate about what they do as you are. It is obvious that you’ve got your heart in the right place, and I’ve truly enjoyed watching your videos for the last few years. Thanks for everything that you do!
OK, as someone with no dog in this fight, the title is misleading. The video starts off with an extended rant against the NON-tinted house movement. The incompatibility in the ideas of owning a house but not owning property. Then there is the rant against inflation. I tuned out when the “gold bug” sales job started. QED.
How ironic that he is supporting investing in gold and silver, and extolling the virtues of capitalism, yet fails to see that this is the root of the housing crisis. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
I TOTALLY agree with every point you made about tiny homes. It is so refreshing & validating to see such a well thought out & candid talk about how we got here & some of the biggest drivers behind the tiny home movement. I've read articles about corporate investment groups buying up housing in swaths, and the explosion of Air B&Bs has also contributed to making buying a home (or renting) unaffordable here in California & around the U.S. Here many seniors & young people scramble to afford shelter. Too many are living out of their CARS! Shelter is a human survival NEED. It may be that the tiny home movement needs to wade into the political arena in adequate numbers to really shift the perspective on this.
Thanks for speaking out about this. Yes, it's taking a chance of alienating some viewers, but I'm sure I'm not the only one who admires you for your position on this.
If your honesty about the potential pitfalls - "the dark side" - saves just one person or one family from financial loss, this video will have been worth the making of it. However, I am certain that it will help or save many more. Bravo.
Thank you for your support, & your thoughts are deeply appreciated 👍🙏✅
Imagine… just building a Tiny House is considered legal disobedience… wtheck!! That’s absolutely INSANE!! We are all behind this movement Bryce in every Country, under the Sun!! 🌞💖🌞 Thank you for one of your best, most honest and informative video’s on this channel!!
I just saw a video about citizens in France ( like 1700s or so) were being arrested or put to death for daring to wear the increasingly popular calico from India because it threatened the silk garment industry. So bottom line of any ridiculous restrictions is always money for the ones who have monopolized whatever industry it involves. Nothing new under the Sun.
Honesty and kindness in one video. Well done and thanks for the information. Lots to consider and valuable take aways.
"Our lawmakers are failing in their duty of care to their citizens". That one cracked me up. Let me quote our ex-minister for housing, including building social housing, now in the running for becoming the minister-president of this corrupt little state of Flanders (Belgium): "I'm not going to build social housing. Poor people should stop being poor so they can rent in the normal housing market". He got rewarded with election victory for this attitude. Nuf said.
That’s just awful! I can’t believe such lack of compassion exists, but it does, sadly.
Unfortunately, this is worldwide.
Yes it does its called crazy litle Belguim politics
surely not! A comedian (chris lilley as) ja'mie said "poor ppl! get some money" years ago. I do think this crisis is about humans becoming more minimalist, and some other factors, aside from the exterior factors. like covid changed things beyond a flu. The fact that woirld wide we are all having an issue, everywhere! leads me to beleive that.
Sounds like “Let them eat cake.”
I live in New Mexico. I'm retired and I ended up building a foundation "guest house" for my retirement tiny home because I didn't want the city to come along when I'm 80 and force me to move. It was a lot more expensive but it's a pretty great place to be a senior. All the design ideas were influenced by your videos. Thank you for making them.
What a shit government to even think of doing that to a person. Wouldn't suprise me if it happened here though.
GOD BLESS YOU. YOU DID YOUR HOMEWORK.
GOOD FOR YOU. WELCO.E HOME.
I’m a single retired writer. Never lived in a ‘tiny house’ per se but have lived in 2 studio cottages. I own very little ‘stuff’-very Zen. But rented, never owned one.
Tiny home owners in many places in Canada are having legal issues. Getting forced off of land that they own or finding bylaws being changed. There are tiny home communities but many are expensive and regulated.
They don’t want you to buy a property no matter how small, they want you to rent because they are landlords and are set to make a lot of profit from you. So many of our M.P.s in the U.K. are also landlords. They aren’t going to speed up laws when they want their interests to take priority.
I agree @cathycreates.. as a fellow Brit, it’s so frustrating. I’m sure not just ours, but all governments want to keep us on the hamster wheel until we drop. Without wealth, we are just the batteries that keep the country going… God forbid we should have any quality of life by selecting a more modest home and standard of living… who will they dangle carrots in front of to keep working in order to afford high rents and mortgages if we all did this?
It’s disgusting and immoral how the powers that be behave
Exactly, it's all about the money. And people think slavery is a thing of the past.
In Australia, they want everyone over 70 in aged care, where they take back 85 per cent of your pension while the providers raid your savings!
Governments needs to adapt because the tiny house movement is not going away.
Wow! Thank you Bryce for sharing! Blessings & Gratitude to you and Rasa❤
Thank you so much, for your love to humanity: your heart speaks like mine.
There is so much need within the people all over the world. Thank you for reflecting this clearly to the community.
Luv from Germany.
Already blown away by this video and just started listening. Your passion really comes through considering how chipper you usually are.
Agreed!
One reason to put a tiny home on wheels is that they can be registered as a trailer, which is cheaper. But you can't get an address for a trailer and a home cannot be on wheels. You can't live permanently in a trailer even if its on your own property. But if its a home then your taxes go up. The legal system hasn't caught up to this way of living. Its very difficult and I'm glad your talking about it. You should do more like this.
Your taxes should go up. You are using the same amount of services as an expensive house.
I agree on the rise in taxes but only as large as the house. I also get it, they don't want people popping 20 trailers on one lot. But what about zoning for one, maybe two trailers per lot making the house legal in that regard?
@@carolr7823 Minus the very large footprint of a larger home (which is supposed to affect property taxes), along with the potentially higher utility usage (especially heating & cooling).
Appreciate your views Bryce and couldn’t agree more! Love your passion.
Well stated. Most communities rely on the property tax, at least in part, to pay for municipal and school services, and tiny home residents use these services. It's a dilemma for the towns and cities, and putting your house on wheels to avoid the property tax isn't fair. The solution is to prohibit "trailers" on wheels to be used as legal residences. Given the shortage of affordable housing, this isn't the best answer to the problem, but no one has come up with a better one.
Having been denied a bank loan two years ago to replace the roof, spouting and fireplace in the increasingly less weathertight and inadequately heated, mold-ridden house I still live in, with my dependent children, the realities so many already face around inadequate housing has become more & more personal with each passing year. Often those that could help, choose not to. Often those who would love to help, find they can't. Until what is essentially a white collar crime of adding more and more hoops for people who are financially struggling to jump over stops, (be it for trying to start their own small business enterprise, be it for endeavouring to fix their current homes, be it for actually building & owning their own homes) the richer continue to get richer to extend their property and land holding portfolios, whilst the poor continue to get poorer & head further along the path of homelessness & ill-health. Thank you for putting on video what is a very honest and increasingly more relevant to the ever increasing humanity crisis; the right to dry & warm shelter for all of humankind.
Thank you for this enlightening talk. We are lucky here in the US as you said. I always tell my hubs that if I end up alone, I will likely want to live in a tiny house. Easier to clean and maintain. I did not think about all the other issues you mentioned, so I am glad I listened to this video.
canada is short of housing but fights against tiny homes. homeless issues are huge. tent cities are everywhere. its horrible
I think they're trying to make North America one country. Consolidate into cities and the vast open areas people (pest) free. Cities being holding area's to sort out the useful ones.
@@kelleemerson9510 It's a messed up world. I think we all need to hang on and brace ourselves. Wishing you the best .
here in the USA we have the same issue ... builders keep building new homes in the process destroying wild life habitats ... plenty of people living on the streets, Tiny homes could resolved that problem but we have greedy goverment officials that care to little for humans ...
@@gladlisa1 I hope something changes for both of our countries 🙏
You only touched it lightly, but the "disparity" part really gets me. I find it can be a really stark contrast when you feature homes that are parked in people's backyards - often there are multiple very large, modern, 3,000 sq ft traditional homes, sometimes with pools and other high-quality landscaping, and then there is the tiny home. Which is nice, and high quality, but the contrast is definitely noticeable. Especially since in many cases, the only difference financially is the timing - the people with the traditional home had a normal salary in the 80s or 90s and the tiny home owners have a normal salary in the 2010s and 2020s.
Really hammers home how much governments have failed their people.
@trevorvanderwoerd8915,
One of the issues with allowing ADU's in the backyards of some people (who generally have the $$)is they use the ADU as an Air B&B(for short term vacationers) as extra income, without long term renting to someone who actually needs a place to live. 💩😒
@@debracisneroshhp2827 this was supposed to be regulated in Toronto, as anyone who receives the tax grant to build their home must rent it long term for 5 years. How many do you think took the grant?
@@debracisneroshhp2827 I would rather vacationers rented caravans and tiny homes and not air bnbs that are actual apartments and houses. Air bnb took ALOT of real homes out of circulation hence high rents and prices in some towns and cities.
yes. that ticks me off "my dad built it for me" or "we are parked on family land".
MOOCHERS
I hear "we bought the land and then we paid to build this house here" I CHEER!
@@carlh-thehermitwithwi-fi679 so? some of those parents worked their assess off so their children live better lives. So they their children have place to build on and not struggle like some of them did. Why are you hating?
Please make more videos like this! This was so amazingly written and explained, I hope more people outside of the tiny house movement discover it.
Living a minimalist life in a tiny house is my dream, but starting seems like it's impossible right now. Im from Malta, a country where tiny houses are such a foregin concept. The country itself is a tiny island that is overgrowing with immigrant population and infrastructure (housing is pretty much impossible for us local youths and unfortunately realtors are now discriminating against locals and only renting to these immigrants). Plus any little available land is ALWAYS under some kind of government regulation, making camping impossible (in some open places even bbq's and tents aren't allowed!). Last summer I saw some campervans around coastal areas and I was so happy, only for people to post pictures of them on Facebook and basically bully the government into kicking them off the beach "so they won't cover the view". We need more awareness of the tiny house movement globally especially for us youths that do not live in the US, Australia, or New Zealand, because most of the time although seeing the house tours is amazing for inspiration and motivation, for someone like me I always think to myself "but here in Malta I can't just build a house and find a parking spot like the peope in these videos".
Apologies for the long rant, I was hoping that maybe other Europeans who are going through the same doubt will see this and know that they aren't the only ones. Hopefully by time enough people start speaking up till it reaches the EU and hopefully the EU comes up with some fair regulations that bypass my country's government. Thank you for this video Bryce and Rasa.
You go, Bryce! Brilliantly presented and deeply heartfelt. It's essential to realistically portray this lifestyle, especially the dark side. We so appreciate your passion for tiny homes and all they entail. Blessings and gratitude to you and Rasa for all you do.
My family enjoys living in tiny house because
1. Short time needed to clean up
2. Easy to look for missing things
3. Easier to decorate and renovate when needed.
4. The feeling of coziness is so real in small house.
Well said Bryce! I also grew up in Auckland, I had to leave because of the cost of housing. We live under an out of control financial system that doesn’t work for the people subject to it. I have heard many stories recently about people in tiny houses struggling with archaic rules. It’s great that you are helping to give these people a voice.
Scott Brown here!
So happy to get this information in one place and clearly articulated! There is a big difference between going in with your eyes open and being blindsided, and this really helps. Thank you!
I love the idea of people using their land to create mobile home and tiny house villages.
I live in a small county in NS Canada but am proud to say our local council has redefined legal dwellings as well as allowed secondary dwellings on a property. This will allow for folks like me with a few extra acres to have an adult child or senior, or renter living in their own home on a shared property.
I’m happy to see you post this video. It’s timely and important as more people imagine the romantic notion of going tiny but need to be aware of the reality of outside influences. Bravo.
Hello neighbour. I’m in NS too. But where was Canada on the map he showed. lol. We were absent.
@@MsTiggytoo yes a little bizarre but also how America views the map. Hahaha.
I love that you took time to talk about legality upfront since this is the foundational issue (no pun intended) with tiny homes. If they were legal and relugated, there would be more financing available, disreputable contractors wouldn't have as much opportunity to rip people off, and there would be much more parking. If the legality issue is addressed, tiny homes will be accesible to so many more people.
I went off grid in a 14x14 cabin I built for $2k in 2003 and ran in to lots of resistance from local government and utility companies. I had to fight and resist the pressures and that is why I started my channel and designed affordable tiny houses and cabins and off grid systems that anyone can build. That movement exploded in 2008 when the housing market collapsed and we are now again facing a dire situation of homelessness. You can still buy affordable land and build your own tiny home and off grid is now affordable and acceptable but you will still get resistance and you have to stand up for yourselves and fight back and organize. -LaMar
Not everything is sugar coated. To proceed with both eyes and ears open. That is what I was taught. We needed to hear this.
Thank you Bryce & Rasa xx
Exactly. Legality actually makes it so difficult for some of us that it never happens, something we desperately need. Thank you for speaking on this.
Can you release a version of this video (without the sponsored section) so I can send it to every politician in Australia? Best video on this topic, so well articulated, thought out and presented, thank you! The frustration with politicians who really don’t give a rats about the people they supposedly represent, let alone are meant to serve, is very real. Then there’s the banks……. Still, tiny home living is still on my register. One day!
Please! This would be such a great resource to send on mass.
@@lucysmith7658
DEFINITELY DO THIS BRYCE❤❤❤
YOU'D BE A BEYOND EXCELLENT ADVOCATE❤❤
HAD NO IDEA YOU WERE SO ARTICULATE & VERSED ABOUT ALL THIS...
Man I really felt your frustration vibes while describing the bureaucratic threats to tiny living... we've been struggling to maintain our existence on family land due to challenges with insurance, forced into a system that we would happily avoid and assume the risk ourselves (as long as we are not putting anyone in our surroundings at risk, which we are not).
Regulations need to scale with your proximity to others... if you are in an urban environment, then your actions and the way you live can have a direct impact on those around you, so following the same stricter rules as your neighbours is part of the price paid for the benefits of urban living... however if you are living rural, as many tiny-dwellers are, you should be able to effectively hide from the demands of those on whom your lifestyle has no impact... as human beings, we are truly failing to simply work towards the best lives we could be living, and instead getting distracted wasting energy on absurdity... missing the big picture...
While I also hope for a better future, after an entire decade I'm very discouraged by nearly zero progress when it comes to adoption into building code, bylaws, and insurance categories (at least in Canada). I simply don't have the time/energy to make my own contribution to pressure for changes, and our institutions and authorities have no incentive to be proactive on our behalf.
/endrant
I now live in a community where homelessness is rampant. I stand with you to fight government regulations, banking institutions, and outdated legal regulations. Also, thank you for talking about the sponsor of your video. I’ll check it out.
I live in Austin, Texas and one of the largest tiny house communities in the world is located just outside Austin's city limits, which serves the formerly homeless. Its called Community First Village. Despite the City of Austin staff being very enthusiastic about this project and Austin TX having the costliest housing in all of Texas, it was not legal to build this tiny house subdivision in the City of Austin. As a former City Planner, I took numerous trips to the concept village (which was supposed to be built in the City of Austin) until the non-profit developer decided he could not build his tiny house master community within the City of Austin. City, County and State officials talks about the lack of affordable housing, but they do little to improve the situation because the wealthy and developers don't want affordable housing.
That's because real estate is an investment and politicians don't want to mess with the financial sector except to give it bailout money when it's on the verge of collapse.
People need to show up en masse so the politicians feel the size of this constituency. Not leave it to Associations.
So what. The tiny house comunity got built! How is it doing? Is it good enough that Austin city regrets not bringing it in the city? Is it good enough that the local community is happy to have it? Do they want to expand the concept?
How much more taxes does this new comunity pay than the the regular housing that would be there?
Austin just passed a law that the lot size requirement has been cut in half, to about 2000 sq ft. I think it's going to be awful. They've made no provision for where all the cars will go, & developers aren't required to guarantee prices will be lowered.
@@wendyeames5758 Those are gonna be some small lots, but one could easily work with that.
However, I suspect the allowed housing sizes won't adjust alongside it.
Stern look in the thumbnail, Bryce! Great video, kudos to you for speaking up so passionately about tiny home issues, which are a microcosm of the larger problems we’re all facing globally. Appreciate your honesty and your integrity. Would love to see more videos of people making more unconventional small homes with limited resources (but unlimited resourcefulness). Love this channel, keep up the great work! 🙏💚
was curious to see what actual dark sides you'd talk about since I don't really think those whimsical issues like how messy they get are actually problems. Did not expect our king to go off. We bow to thee! Thank you so much for speaking up, you're clearly really passionate and I love getting your perspective and philosophy. More Bryce rants!!!!! Thank you so much for sharing
Big shout to you Bryce for recognizing the balance of the tiny home culture. I know it may have not been your favorite video to make but the reach it makes and further, your channel does make a difference. Thank you for continuing to treat us and educate us. Bless you and yours
Bryce that’s not towing the elite line. Remember “You will own nothing and be happy.”
Thank you for exposing the facts and calling for reality based activation and solutions. We owe our child that and more ❤
This quote also came to my mind. I do hope that we will prevail.
I've watched the tiny home movement shift from sustainability, affordability and freedom of housing without a lifetime of debt to focus on making a side hustle of airbnb and the like. The people using tiny homes to make money have pushed municipalities to ban them or make permitting so tedious that it's too expensive or legally wearing that people cannot get permits. In the meantime the housing crisis all over the world get worse and those in power want to keep it that way because they make money off of renting. Its income streams over people. I'm disabled and I'll never own a home, tiny or otherwise because of obstacles and costs well beyond people like me can afford (or get lending for). Thank you for addressing these issues.
Such EXCELLENT advice.
Eyes. Wide. Open.
It’s easy to romanticize tiny home living.
The reality can be different from your expectations. Simply educate yourself on what to realistically expect, in order to avoid disappointment.
It’s really a wonderful life. And like everything in life, it has its light and dark sides. Lear to maximize the light, and minimize the dark by doing your tiny-home-work before taking the plunge. 🏡❤️
Great informative video. One aspect of tiny homes I’ve realized in recent years for us in colder climates. The small space can be a challenge for some when you spend the majority of your time inside. This happens for us during the coldest months of winter. What’s interesting with your videos is many to most of the homes you feature have incredible outdoor spaces that can be enjoyed year round. It’s not like you’re spending all your time inside but you won’t enjoy meals on your deck or tending to a garden. Not something I realized until I experienced it.
I'm so glad you made this video, the red tape and gray area are the main reason I haven't looked further into a tiny house. It's so messed up that government prevents people from having a simple roof over their head when like you said so many people don't have homes at all.
Bryce, so glad you used your platform to inform people what is really going on everywhere in the world. Thank you for having the courage to speak up and be a voice for so many people! Bravo 👏👏👏👏👏👏
I'm really grateful that you took the time to make this video. Because my spouse and I found the tiny living is something that we are priced out of because I am disabled and we make almost nothing here in the USA. Everything you've been talking about in this video is stuff that we had to find out the hard way, and from talking to other tiny house owners who have been unfortunately, given short end of the stick from disruptable builders and other unfortunate events. I wanted to thank you for making this information for the public because it is invaluable.
Bravo Bryce...as a fellow kiwi & also someones who's lived worldwide, your comments need to be louder to those who are destroying our economy through corruption & greed. NZ especially, has become the most unaffordable country in the western world. For those of us awake, we know why!! Ive worked in commercial & residential property too, large & small and it sickens me whats happening to individuals & families worldwide. Thank you for speaking out on this! 🤩
Land for a tiny home is similar to the issues that face trailer homes, "trailer parks". Rent a space that's good now, but risk changes when the property changes hands or even just changes management.
As a Florida resident, I don't find very builders willing to build "starter homes" smaller than 1400 square feet under air that nurses, teachers, construction workers and others can buy without having mortgage payments that are the same costs as apartment rents per month.
This problem is nationwide, not unique to Florida.
Tiny homes have their good points, except they are on wheels and not accepted by many local governments, which don't force big builders ( like DR Horton, Lennar) to stop building gated communities with all the frills and the dreaded HOA'S.
People are downsizing from the 2000 square foot and larger homes ( under air) because of higher costs for repairs, insurance and taxes and moving out of the state.
That was amazingly done, Bryce.
Thank you for your honesty.❤❤❤
Thank you. We will be moving onto a converted bus, but our daughter has chosen to build a conventional tiny home. It's been her desire for over 7 yrs. We are really grateful for your coverage of this sensitive side of tiny living. Have fun kiddo.
2 min into the video and you hit the biggest issue. Not at the end but at the beginning. No time to skip, no time to get tired, no growing tension. Strike at the start. Absolutely love it ❤ I think in today world with all the shortages, restrictions and growing demand tiny houses should be legal. If people have roof over head and place to call home they can spend rest of the money on other stuff like holidays, material stuff, entertainment and boost economy. But if rent consume most of person income they can't afford others. How government can't see that?
Maybe it's designed to be that way, maybe the plan is to have people broke.. red pill 💊 incoming .. 😊
Oh they see that, believe me they see it. What’s happening is this big push to eliminate the middle class. These big corporations have governments in their pockets. They are the ones responsible for this mess and this is the design they’ve created to keep the power in their corner. They want to keep everyone poor and at their mercy. They will provide just enough to keep us alive and force the masses to depend on them for survival. Government won’t change anything because they don’t have the power and/or they have personal interests in the corporation. You know their plan is taking shape as we speak. This money and wealth they have comes from the average working citizen. It’s criminal when a productive member of society who has a have a full time job and can’t afford to rent a one bedroom apartment, not to mention everything else that goes with basic living . This is why no change has been seen. It’s going to take a revolution to find justice for the people that are being stolen from each paycheck earned.
@aherki,
SOOO TRUUUE!!! 💖🙌😺
Absolutely 💯
In true Bryce formate... Everything he does is absolute quality. Sensational man❤
Read the UN agenda 2030. They don't want ordinary people to own property.
I totally agree with all your points. People need to rise up and protest. Make new laws. Change the tax laws.
The problem is, laws are only for people that can't fight back. It's always been that way, and it will always BE that way...
@@onlyfromadistance7326 So give up? Sorry…. I don’t prescribe to that mindset…and neither should you.
@@lizzieb6311 Change is on the way.
Here in the UK we desperately need more homes but our planning laws are so draconian it's ridiculous. My family owns a very small bit of land(2 fields) the rear field is shielded from view from the not busy road but it would be totally illegal for me to live there in a tiny home even if I made the home transportable it's ridiculous.
It doesn't take a tiny home to have your local jurisdiction try to force you out of your home. My jurisdiction has been forcing people out of older homes by overwhelming us with code violation investigations, then a favored builder can swoop in and buy your nearly condemned home for next to nothing, knock it down and build a giant home in its place. Ours is a particularly stubborn family, so we are one of the last to keep our 130-year-old house. Meanwhile, as the building department and the builder struggle over influence, more lots remain vacant than built on.
Excellent information Bryce. Thnx so much for this video. As a 65 year old living in PNW of the USA, the considerations of living tiny is becoming real.
I agree. Much-needed info! Same with California and the unhoused crisis is out of control. I live in Northern California in a suburb of Sacramento and we have a big unhoused population. We need to better.
@@TheresePope ,
I'm in SoCal and we have the saaaame problem. In our area there is a new requirement that new 'building' must also include a certain percentage of the site for 'affordable' housing__the problem with THAT is it ends up being "section 8" housing, which defeats the purpose. 💩😢😣
Yes agree with it all, affordable housing should be a human right , too much greed
I agree wholeheartedly, but it would still be a very novel occurrence. Yes, for a short time after WWII it seemed in some western democracies, that affordable housing was on the horizon, a exhilarting blip… in human history.
@nommh Here in Denmark you can get a good government financial support for your rent. My friend got like $ 200 of his rent
Thank you for using your platform to speak on this
5:49 okay this turned into a precious metals commercial
As a homeowner in NZ, he’s 100% right, thank you for sharing this video 🙏
Well said Bryce. Thank you for speaking up for those who rely on their own tiny home ownership. Less Government, more rights.
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Never happen
@@streetsmartintelligent Think positive. Nothing is impossible with God.
So glad this wasn't clickbait - very informative thank you 💓
I have been follow you for years and LOVING IT! This is SUCH A FABULOUS MESSAGE! Thank you!
You are truly responsible and open-hearted being. Great to have you here and thank you for doing your job so diligently. Thank you so much!