Land quality, aside here’s my rant:

Tiny home villages are dumb ideas. It’s a terrible waste of resources in every way.

It’s bad use of land, it’s bad use of construction design, it’s bad use of public health resources.

Tiny villages, since they will house people, still need to conform to building codes. Building separate homes, even if they’re small, is just bad use of the land. Building townhomes, apartment (3 story max), or quadplex are just better. More energy efficient, cheaper per unit because of shared walls and plumbing. You can still build the same size units but with a shared roof instead.

And then you have the issue of resource connections. If it’s tiny homes, these sites are going to lack connection to resources. Housing first initiative targets the most vulnerable persons, and they’ll need resources. Whether it’s therapy, or just transit to jobs, the end state is for people to be able to integrate to society. Once they are able to transition, how will they hold a basic job with no transit options.

We are going to have to bite the bullet, and just build somewhere that makes sense. Yes, some people are going walk away unhappy with the building, but these ideas of tiny villages being thrown around is designed to fail. Maybe that is the point of after all.