Tiny Homes Take Over Atlantic Station This Weekend
The annual Tiny House Festival will be this weekend at Atlantic Station.
Micro Life Institute
HGTV shows like “Tiny House Hunters” and “Tiny House, Big Living” highlight the simplistic beauty of downsizing. This year, Tiny House Atlanta will showcase luxury tiny homes and more at their annual Tiny House Festival at Atlanta Station.
The festival promotes minimalism and sustainable living. They will also be showcasing over 25 luxury tiny homes, container houses, and skoolies. A tiny home is a small living space no bigger than 500 square feet, which is a little bigger than a two-car garage. Container houses are exactly what they sound like: a shipping container with plumbing, windows, and electricity for comfortable living. Now, skoolies are the newest trend for “tiny living.” These are homes on wheels or out-of-commission school buses, which have been turned into houses. This is optimal for the minimal traveling enthusiast.
Will Johnston of the Micro Life Institute and Tiny House Atlanta and he truly believes “less space equals more life.” Tiny living isn’t geared towards one demographic or one personality trait; it’s for everyone. Johnston does believe that tiny living can be part of the solution to Atlanta’s growing affordable housing crisis. The City of Atlanta just passed it’s “Quick Fixes Phase 2” zoning ordinances which allow home owners to build multiple units on one parcel land.
“If each neighborhood block, say there’s 10-12 houses on a block, even if four houses put in an accessory dwelling unit, a micro-space in the backyard that’s 500 square feet that allows someone to live in, we would get 20,000-30,000 more livable housing units in the city of Atlanta. And we are so far behind. We need more work force housing, we just need more regular housing,” Johnston said.
This past week, the Clarkston City Council approved eight tiny house cottages to be built on half an acre. It will be the first ever Atlanta all tiny-house neighborhood. Each home will be under 500-square feet and about $100,000.
“This project will be a proof of concept for us,” MicroLife Institute co-founder Kim Bucciero said. “There is a lot of interest and movement towards tiny homes and cottage homes, but many developers are hesitant to enter the market. Our hope is that this project will encourage other municipalities and private developers to experiment with new, innovate development paradigms and learn from this great case study.”
Micro Life hopes to finish building by the end of this year.
Producer Summer Evans toured a 200-square-foot model ahead of the Tiny House Festival to bring us back this story.
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