'Tiny homes' in high demand; Here's how to get one in San Diego

The fact that there is already an excessive amount of demand awaiting its absorption, despite how everyone is frightened and calling the crash, is another reason why it is less likely to occur that way. 2008 saw no one, at least not the broad public, making this forecast, as I'll explain below. The ownership rate was noted to have peaked in 2004 in the other comment. Having previously peaked in the second quarter of 2020, we are currently at the median level. Between 2008 and 2012, it dropped by 3%, and by the second quarter of 2020, it had dropped from 68 to 65.

The fact that lawmakers allowed the housing crisis to get to this level is disgusting.

Takes a YEAR to just get a permit? San Diego needs to hire more employee's. This proves SAN DIEGO is dragging ass and doesn't have the best interest of the people.

The only UNFORTUNATE FORSEEABLE ISSUE is that tiny homes regulations is going to make it just as expensive as building a traditional home. The government trying to exploit a new division of the Real Estate industry.

Taking a year to provide permits is unacceptable and inexcusable. Any bureaucrats involved with that should be fired!

God...everything has a catch. I had a dream to live tiny but it seems impossible with all the rules and expenses they have now. $60,000 (I'm sure that's the base price) for 500 sq ft?? Then having to pay for land, infrastructure etc.? By the time you're done you will have paid for what a regular house would've cost. This is just infruriating.

It's unbelievable that it has got to this...reduced to a very tiny home. They killed the American Dream for many of us.

These are not being bought so that low income people have affordable housing. Nope. These are being put in backyards as Air B & B rentals. Sure, it only costs $60,000. But first you have to have property to place these houses. These houses are NOT competing with mobile homes, or travel trailers for low income buyers-- they are competing with hotels, resorts, and other types of vacation housing.

Government: It's illegal to be homeless. Also Government: Making taxes & living expenses so high, people are forced into homelessness.

What the desperate see: "A home I can buy." What the millionares see: "A worker dorm that lets me keep wages below livable."

Modern tiny homes are good quality and a lot cheaper than normal homes but there are a few big problems 1) You need to own the land under the tiny home. If you don't own the land, the landowner will charge you an exorbitant rent because they can. If you look at tiny home listings you will see in most cases you are buying the tiny house but the owner/bank retains the land 2) Banks won't finance land development, utility hookup, building the tiny home or shipping a tiny house which forces you to pay mostly in cash. Most people don't have this much cash so most tiny homes are bought by wealthy investors. 3) Tiny homes lose value over time, you will sell it for less than you paid. This doesn't make a lot of sense considering modern well built tiny homes don't degrade any faster than a traditional house. The really sad part is a tiny house would meet alot of peoples needs and they can be made very cheaply but our corrupt government would rather you buy more traditional house than you can afford and live the poverty lifestyle. Our government could do a lot more to help people get into tiny houses but rel estate profits matter more than people's well being. And we wonder why the homeless problem keeps getting worse.

CA dream 2022: Bury everyone in paperwork and deny them the simple concept of affordable housing

corporations will find a way to monopolize those tiny homes

I love that capitalism has literally convinced people to live in a fucking shed in the richest country on earth. Love this for our future generations. I wonder how much further we can lower the bar moving forward.

Funny how those who live in mobile homes are considered poor.. yet somehow it's hip and cool to live in a tiny home which are half the size of the smallest mobile homes. I was watching one of those HGTV shows about tiny homes and they considered homes under 600 square feet tiny homes. So I guess when I was growing up in a 580 square foot mobile home we were hip and cool before it became hip and cool to live in a home that small.

The least that can be done is remove the ridiculous permit process. Just provide the home property owner a set of rules to follow. Inspect for $75. Done.

Getting permits for ADU or Tiny Home is just overly complicated process...

I want a tiny home but I’m not gonna pay an arm and a leg for it

I think the millionaires, billionaires of California should build a million of these little homes, and give them to the homeless families

Everyone loves that “tiny” homes are cute - but in no way are they the answer everyone is looking for. I personally like the smaller sub 900 sq ft two bedroom houses that were popular starter homes at the end of WWII. For a lot of reasons these tiny homes will remain a fringe element of housing stock. By the time a person buys a vacant city lot and goes through the development process, power, sewer, foundation, etc. - they would have been better served buying an older house.