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by KannO 3810 days ago
Evolve the idea of what a home is.

Elio motors is offering a small 84MPG vehicle for $6,800. 30 year old Volkswagen Westfalia Campers maintain a high resale value to this very day. Why are all mobile homes so huge? How much money do people spend on rent, leases, mortgages, and buying homes?

I'm sure college students would love a compact mobile home vehicle. Developing countries would likely eat such a thing up.

The CEO of Zappos lives in a trailer park of Airstream trailers and Tumbleweed tiny mobile houses with a shared kitchen, living room and other common areas designed to encourage a true neighborhood / community.

  Or just consider a house as infrastructure. 
  Real estate is assumed to be limited, but that's mostly 
  the result of nimbyism and the gaming of developments 
  sold off on the real estate market as "investments". The 
  whole trend of gentrification will likely play out in 
  less expensive regions of North America and developing 
  countries, and presumably there will be large dense 
  affordable housing somewhere someday and these areas tend 
  to be fertile for creative businesses and cultural 
  experimentation. New York is long stagnate, and it's 
  amazing how much San Fransisco suffers from real estate 
  leaching off of the working population and tech economy.
A home isn't limited to being a house.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvgN5gCuLac

1 comments

> Evolve the idea of what a home is.

I see what you did there... Now lets try that on my wife.