Tiny Homes are, often, basically an RV made out of wood, and on wheels – but very small 200-300 sq ft. The official definition of “Tiny home” is 600 sq ft or smaller – but which is larger than what many may be thinking of when thinking of a “tiny home”. The average tiny home is about 225 sq ft – roughly the size of a large RV trailer.
About 0.3% of homes in the U.S. are “tiny homes”. And that might be a lot less than expected due to media stories about tiny homes being a “thing”.
Affordable Alternative or Passing Fad? A Study of the ‘Tiny Home’ Market in 2021 (porch.com)
For context, the home I grew up in, with a family of 6, was 900 sq ft and later enlarged to about 1200 sq ft.
Tiny homes arose in part, as a way to lower home prices, and that they could often be added as an “accessory dwelling unit” on to an existing home property. They also arose during the “minimalism” fad (check that out on Youtube) – a fad that ran its course as many discovered it was not as practical as they initially envisioned.
As the link above, notes, the minimalism movement – and the tiny home movement – tended to “glorify” and gentrify poverty – by people who could often afford much more. There is also not a lot of distinction between “Tiny homes” and many single wide mobile homes, or even living in an RV.
