Tiny Homes At Risk From New HUD Rule
“A proposed rule by the Housing and Urban Development Department (HUD) on February 9, 2016, threatens “full-time RV’ers,” and further stymies those seeking to build their tiny house as a street legal home.”
From Rick Gordon
Canadian Home in Our Book Inspires Home in Tasmania
Hey Lloyd, hope you are well and working hard at it on your next project!
My name is Pete Robey and my wife Blythe and I live in Tasmania. The little island attached to the bottom of Australia.
Thought I would share with you that our house is the first approved cordwood home in Australia.
It is currently featured in Australia’s Owner Builder magazine.
You can get a link here at the bottom of the page:
https://www.thehousethatworkedout.com
I bought your 3 books: Shelter, Builders of the Pacific Coast, and Homework early on before we had even confirmed style.
The Baird House from page 28-31 of Builders of the Pacific Coast just grabbed me. Thanks Mike Baird and to you too Lloyd (House) for this inspiration.
We designed our home with the same ideal: every room and every area of the home can pretty much engage with every other area of the home. The village TeePee idea.
We have a massive 4ft diameter, 20 ft long tree holding up the earth roof and our 2nd story doesn’t go all the way to the middle so we have plenty of space.
We don’t have stairs, preferring to use a gym rope as exercise to get to the 2nd floor.
Catch you later.
Pete
Sllver sunset
Alabama Shakes – Don’t Wanna Fight – Grammy Awards 2016
https://youtube.com/watch?v=FP3D8PaxAaQ
Yes it’s me and I’m in love again…
…with the Pacific Ocean, that is, in which I just paddled about a mile on my 12′ Joe Bark paddleboard. First time paddling, first time swimming in over 2 months. Boy, did that activate some chi!
I saw a lone seal cavorting. It reminded me of a swimming teammate of mine in high school, Mike Barnato, who said he wanted to be reincarnated as a seal. I thought it might be Mike out there.
Fats Domino, “I’m in Love Again”
GARY CLARK JR. – “When My Train Pulls In” (Live in Griffith Park, CA)
From Evan Kahn
Norma’s Floating Store in British Columbia
Built by Bruno Atkey in Tofino, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada, in the ’70s, and towed 26 miles to Hot Springs Cove, where Norma Bailey ran a “…great floating store selling emergency supplies, esoteric items, and Wild Coast history books,” according to Godfrey Stephens, who just sent this photo.
Inspired by Shelter in 1973
Hi Lloyd,
On first looking into your Shelter book in 1973, my fate was sealed. Since then, I have made my own ceramic tile, been a tile setter for 35 years, and am a serial remodeler and builder of tiny houses. Pictured here with my original Shelter book. I recently came upon your Tiny Homes: Simple Shelter, and have been inspired anew. Rage on!
Sincerely,
Fred Ross
San Anselmo, CA
Golden Valley, Minnesota Hereby Nominated for Oppressive/Despotic City Award of the Month
Article by Eric Boehm in Watchdog.Org Minnesota Bureau:
“Nanny State of the Week: Town inspection checks whether you cleaned your toilet
Local officials in a Minnesota town want to make sure their residents are keeping a tidy home.… Officials in one Minnesota town are willing to spend more taxpayer money on an appeal after they were told they can’t inspect rental properties without a good reason.
Two landlords in Golden Valley, Minnesota, who recently found themselves on the receiving end of inspections from city housing officials now find themselves dragged into court to defend their right to privacy. They say they were within their rights to block what the city calls a mandatory inspection of rental properties.
Even after one Minnesota judge ruled that Golden Valley can’t conduct inspections without a good reason, the city is spending more taxpayer money on an appeal.…”
https://watchdog.org/256148/nanny-state-toilet-inspection-minnesota/
Sent in by Anonymous