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by telecuda 1371 days ago
Would this be classified as a "tiny home" by most jurisdictions? Not at this price-point, but we've been looking for prefab housing related to a transitional housing grant, where many cities in Florida do not allow tiny homes.
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Depends on jurisdiction. Some places explicitly allow ADUs, but I don't know what building specs they require.

Many pre-fab tiny-homes are just mobile homes with trendy marketing material. This is where a lot of the issues come from with tiny homes - mobile homes are frequently banned in nicer suburban/urban areas. They're built to different codes than build-in-place homes as well (not a bad thing, necessarily, just different code written by a different organization).

many "tiny homes" are actually legally RV trailers and registered as vehicles. They're built on a DOT compliant width trailer platform.

this is not a tiny home it's in the market for "ADU".