What We Can Learn from Tiny House Communities

A recent study by Linked In found that the average college graduate would have gone through at least four jobs during the first decade after graduating from college. Younger generations such as Millennials are even more likely to “job-hop” as one out of every five people from this generation reported switching jobs during 2016. It is more customary for younger people to change jobs more often than older generations who are established in their careers. There has been a definite change in job stability affecting younger generations. A college degree used to lead into a forty-year career that made it economically sensible to settle into a place and take on the thirty-year mortgage. The volatility of today's job market, along with the increasing requirements of worker mobility, has also fundamentally changed how younger generations approach housing.

Patterns suggest that younger people continually travel in search of job opportunities. A tiny home on wheels allows people to become homeowners without being tied to areas with a lack of job security. Tiny house communities have been popping up around the country in recent years to offer an affordable, community-oriented housing alternative for younger generations. In this article, we review three tiny house communities in North America.