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Tiny houses: Could you give up almost everything you own and downsize to a very small home?
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Let s Reminisce: The tiny house movement
By Jerry Lincecum
Special to the Herald Democrat
The pandemic has sent many homebound Americans desiring more space to live in and scurrying to find it. Sales of large homes are booming. So too are tiny ones. These dwellings often are not much bigger than a standard hotel room. They are built mostly in suburban backyards or converted garages on the West Coast, where new laws designed to ease the region’s housing shortage have encouraged their construction.
The tiny-house movement is an architectural and social movement that advocates living simply in small homes. As you would expect, there are different definitions of tiny.” One prominent Residential Code defines a tiny house as a dwelling unit with a maximum of 400 square feet of floor area, excluding lofts.
cake. our producer is telling us it s cake. we need to clean our ears out. huh? what s that again? gorham is a paper mill town that lost its plant but along came a savior with some deep pockets and a great idea. abc s jay shafer introduced us to this well heeled hero. reporter: lynn tilton, a billionaire turnaround specialist with a flair for gucci, high heels, and black leather. as founder and ceo of patriarch partners, she sits atop a financial empire of 76 companies. slightly less than the number of pairs of shoes in her closet. she s equally at home in her mansions or construction site. restoring main street america has become her burning passion. even the old-timers down at the coffee shop feel a stirring. have you ever seen her? just pictures of her.
she s amazing. she s dressed to kill. i m a woman of my word. reporter: and the word is tissue. the future is tissue. reporter: seems like an awfully thin read on which to saving a small town. until recently was alive and well only in the old picture postcards. then something happened. suddenly gorham is showing signs of life and a future again. it started just down the road at the old paper mill. three shifts running round the clock. 175 newly rehired workers. all thanks to tissue, which is cheaper to make here in the u.s. than overseas. why? shipping tissue makes no sense. it s like shipping air. just way too expensive. i get up each morning to know that i can make a difference in people s lives. she gave me a job, and i give her my very best every time i punch my card. reporter: jay shafer, abc news, gorham, new hampshire. i can t get enough of stories like that. bravo. straight ahead, the march
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