Tiny House, A Big Movement?

Roy, Ria

doi:10.1002/pfi.21862

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“…Conceptual debates like these highlight that the movement is not monolithic, but that it captures a wide a range of complex lifestyle choices (Harris 2018). While some scholars view the environmental (Ford and Gomez-Lanier 2017;Kilman 2016;Vannini and Taggart 2016) and anti-consumerist aspects (Harris 2018;Roy 2019) as the ideological core of the movement, others argue that the TH lifestyle, at its heart, constitutes an existential quest for the "Good Life." Mangold and Zschau (2019), for example, believe that many tiny housers simply embrace this lifestyle to regain a sense of ontological security and individual autonomy in order to define life on their terms.…”

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Small Houses, Big Community: Tiny Housers’ Desire for More Cohesive and Collaborative Communities

2020

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Past research on the tiny house movement has primarily focused on understanding the individual motivations behind adopting the tiny house lifestyle. While some studies have suggested that tiny housers do entertain an interest in community, no systematic research exists that examines the actual complexities of this phenomenon. To make first inroads into this body of literature, twenty-four community-oriented tiny housers were interviewed about their ideal community. Interview questions ranged from definitions of community to specific ideas of the nature of community characteristics. Interviews were recorded, transcribed, and then coded in NVivo 12.0. Four main themes and eleven subthemes emerged from the qualitative content analysis. Select themes were then subjected to a subsequent quantification analysis in order to refine and deepen the theoretical understanding. The findings of this exploratory study suggest that a majority of tiny housers desire to be part of more cohesive and collaborative communities. While stressing the importance of community, tiny housers also expressed concerns over privacy. To explain the findings, the paper offers a set of arguments situated in the broader socio-cultural texture of our time.

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