While I'm all for tiny homes, even this articles states how it sticks out like a sore thumb in the Garfield neighborhood. Besides the gentrification issue, the house itself is $109,000. If you read the full article (click on the link above in the article), a brand new "normal sized" home in this neighborhood is going for $143,000. To renovate your existing home would cost $90,000. So I'm not sure where the incentive is in building a tiny home in the Garfield neighborhood is other than to make a point that zoning exceptions can be done. I'd much rather preserve the history and culture of the Garfield neighborhood by renovating a blighted home rather than build new one, especially if I can have the comfortability of size for about $20,000 less.
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