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Dec 10, 2023

Inside a tiny home community where lots start at $400 and residents get a phone plan, share resources, & dinners

A TINY home space is offering a full-fledged community for its residents - and lots start at just $400 a month. The Simply Home Community is located in Portland, Oregon. Unlike many tiny home spaces

A TINY home space is offering a full-fledged community for its residents - and lots start at just $400 a month.

The Simply Home Community is located in Portland, Oregon.

Unlike many tiny home spaces that just offer a plot of land, Simply Home offers a wide variety of amenities and group activities, according to a listing in Tiny House Communities.

Residents share group meals seven nights a week, as well as parties and other get-togethers.

Additionally, many expenses are shared.

Simply Home shares a phone plan as well as a group Netflix account.

The property also has a communal kitchen and garden.

The listing also said that residents often help each other out with projects and day-to-day tasks.

The listing currently has eight lots for sale for between $400 and $4,000.

Interested residents can look at the listing or check out the community's Facebook page.

They can also direct questions to the community's email: [email protected].

While Simply Home Community focuses on shared experience and resident bonding, many other tiny home spaces have different aims.

For instance, an entire town in Texas - Spur - has embraced tiny homes as a way to offer people a freer life away from the hustle and bust of most cities and towns.

The town is so devoted to the tiny home lifestyle that it declared itself the country's first friendly town to tiny homes.

Others have used the tiny home model to create senior living communities.

The Waters in Texas is a gated senior living community in Texas that gives residents access to a lake and community center.

Meanwhile, multiple tiny home developments are geared toward offering housing to the homeless.

Yet, Americans do not need to join any community to be part of the tiny home lifestyle.

In fact, they do not need to stay in any one place for very long.

A couple detailed on YouTube how they turned an old school bus into a mobile.

They even added an upstairs portion to the top of the bus for more room.

Many simpler structures with tiny home potential can be bought at The Home Depot.

Lowe's sells tiny homes, too.