You can buy the above 19x20 feet portable tiny home on Amazon for $16,000, at your own risk though.
This non-verified one star rating is part of the Amazon tragic hall of shame: When I brought my dog to where it was placed, he ran inside and started playing around. My sister called me outside to do something and before I knew it, the whole house came crashing down and crushed my poor dog inside. Fly high Trixie.. We'll always love you. Trixie 2018-2024.
While Washoe County celebrated the opening of a new welcome center at the Nevada Cares Campus shelter earlier today, their own stats indicate the lack of cheaply priced accessible housing remains a huge obstacle to getting more people with a roof over their heads.
One “toolkit in the toolbox” which has been underestimated for years despite pleas by many advocates for the unhoused is having small structures legally built onto existing lots to be lived in.
Notwithstanding the above model, perhaps, after rejecting the idea of allowing accessory dwelling units everywhere in Reno half a dozen years ago, with a majority of council members and public speakers saying it would have little impact on easing access to housing and too much on the character of neighborhoods, the Reno City Council is finally working on the idea seriously.
If all goes accordingly to new timelines, so-called granny flats could become a possibility across much of Reno towards the end of 2025.
Homeowners associations and different covenants and restrictions may still not allow these types of units in certain areas, but City of Reno staff are currently recommending a measure to allow single-family homeowners to be allowed to add one ADU per lot if they have an additional off-street parking space.
The new unit would have to be shorter than the primary home.
More details are being worked on with ADUs not currently permitted in most areas of Reno due to zoning regulations.
The tide started shifting with ongoing housing accessibility challenges and a survey presented to the City Council earlier this year which found that a large majority of local respondents supported ADUs.
A draft ordinance is now being worked on after council members gave their unanimous approval to move forward on the plan at a meeting in July. The draft proposal will initially be presented to Neighborhood Advisory Boards early next year, before going to the Planning Commission and then Council for passage.
As in the rest of the United States, affordable housing policy has rarely been known for “rapid innovation,” as stated by the Brookings Institute recently.
“Nearly all interviewees said that a key advantage of ADUs is the potential to build them in low-density residential neighborhoods where larger subsidized buildings are not allowed because of zoning or resident opposition. From a purely practical standpoint, ADUs require less land, so can fit virtually anywhere (literally in people’s backyards),” the April 2024 report noted.
“To make ADUs a larger segment of the affordable housing market over the coming years will require both more financial support as well as substantially higher take-up rates among homeowners. Local and state lawmakers should bear these concerns in mind as they move forward with policies to encourage other forms of “missing middle” housing, such as duplexes and lot splits,” it concluded.
Our Town Reno has long advocated for allowing ADUs, despite the initial opposition from elected officials and developers.