Tiny house festival debuts as part of planned tiny housing development

timberLOS ANGELES: Tiny homes are becoming a big thing, but one barrier to widespread adoption has been finding land to legally site them.

The sustainable housing development project, dubbed Les Hameaux de la Source (Hamlets of the Source) is being spearheaded by Habitat Multi-Generations (HMG), a Lavaltrie, Quebec based social enterprise. The proposal involves smaller homes, which can be prefabricated or self-built, arranged in groups of six 15,000-square-foot lots centered around a communal area, that would be used for shared purposes like community activities or food production/permaculture projects.

Four local delegates are currently attending the International Tiny House Festival…

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