The Dark Side of the Tiny House Movement

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How do tiny homes link with life beyond capitalism? There are many amazing examples of sustainable and beautiful tiny houses, built on a budget, of course. But the tiny house movement has grown enormously in the last decade and, in this video, we point out five dark sides which afflict it. These are:

0:00 Intro and the relationship between tiny houses and degrowth
2:43 Tiny Houses display a reactive relationship to the precarity of neoliberal capitalism
4:12 Tiny houses aren’t (always) even that cheap or accessible
5:22 Tiny houses have become their own consumer and rent-based industry
7:07 Tiny houses are not necessarily that sustainable
8:26 Tiny house living can come with existential insecurity

We point to how a tiny house-based transformation or revolution could be strengthened by linking with other movements for planning and housing reform.

The video refers to literature such as:

‘Tiny Houses and the Economics of Sufficiency’ by Alexander and Shearer
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapter...

‘Tiny houses look marvellous but have a dark side’ by Carras
https://theconversation.com/tiny-hous...

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