Tiny Houses and Micro-Apartments

This article discusses the increasing interest in tiny houses and proposes local regulatory reforms to make space for tiny houses as permanent residences. The first section presents a brief history of property ownership rights. The second section discusses zoning law. The third section discusses the tiny house movement. The second part of the article discusses how tiny house proponents have used loopholes to site and occupy tiny houses and then proposes a series of legal reforms to explicitly define and regulate tiny houses as a distinct type of residence.