Dave is a creative writer who lives inside the iconic Astor Place Cube in New York City. The cube’s 8X8 panels add up to 64 square feet which adds up to 512 cubic feet. For Dave, who is 5’8″, that is plenty of space to move around, write, cook, sleep, work out and even play guitar. Dave uses a bicycle generator to power up the lights and a handful of electronic gadgets.
About Lloyd Kahn
Lloyd Kahn started building his own home in the early '60s and went on to publish books showing homeowners how they could build their own homes with their own hands. He got his start in publishing by working as the shelter editor of the
Whole Earth Catalog with Stewart Brand in the late '60s. He has since authored six highly-graphic books on homemade building, all of which are interrelated. The books, "The Shelter Library Of Building Books," include
Shelter,
Shelter II (1978),
Home Work (2004),
Builders of the Pacific Coast (2008),
Tiny Homes (2012), and
Tiny Homes on the Move (2014). Lloyd operates from Northern California studio built of recycled lumber, set in the midst of a vegetable garden, and hooked into the world via five Mac computers. You can check out videos (one with over 450,000 views) on Lloyd by doing a search on YouTube:
Probably not (http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/man-who-supposedly-lived-astor-place-cube-just-sad-fraud-152877), but maybe it's another guy.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's that other guy named Dave who lived in the Astor Place Cube.
some more/different tiny homes for homeless
http://www.nbcnews.com/business/real-estate/tiny-houses-big-idea-end-homelessness-n39316
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/tiny-houses-helping-with-homeless-problem-in-us/
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/20/garden/small-world-big-idea.html?smid=fb-nytimes&WT.z_sma=ST_SWB_20140220&bicmp=AD&bicmlukp=WT.mc_id&bicmst=1388552400000&bicmet=1420088400000&_r=2