Jay Shafer: The Politics of Tiny Houses
Loading...
Uploaded by georgpackard on Mar 22, 2011
In February, 2011, we spent a couple of hours with Jay Shafer (Tumbleweed Tiny House Company), in his 96 square foot house-on-wheels in Sebastopol, California. Jay is one of the more well-known and successful tiny house designers, and there's no denying the "curb appeal" of his designs. That appeal is generated by Jay's careful attention to proportion as well as by his decisions about which elements to include in--and more precisely, what to leave out of-- his designs. But as much as he enjoys talking about design, what he really wanted to talk about was the politics of tiny houses. Why building and zoning codes are stacked against tiny houses, how the costs of purchase and upkeep compare to the big houses he calls "debtors' prisons", and why, when the Big One shakes the land around San Francisco Bay, he'd rather be in his tiny house than anywhere else.
A curiouslylocal.com movie; interview by Joan Packard; camera by George Packard, produced by Parrot Creek Productions.
- 119 likes, 0 dislikes
-
Top Comments
All Comments (17)
-
i think he smokes alot of weed lol
-
Vote Ron Paul if you believe in the First Amendment.
-
@bronaldtrump .. CODES are NOT enacted public laws .. they are created for those contracted by or licensed by the SATE corporation and it's Employees. Never allow words of art to dictate to YOU the OWNER, the STATE is only the Trustee (servant).
-
He alone who, without ceasing, practises the duty of sitting alone and sleeping alone, he, subduing himself, will rejoice in the destruction of all desires alone, as if living in a forest.-Zen Buddhist teaching
-
LOVE!!!
-
..I want to move back to Ca and buy me one little house: what do you suggest I do? thank you, Corona from Italy
-
I mean property taxes, and it doesn't make any sense that the IRS or anyone can take your property that you paid for when you don't pay taxes.
-
I'm still building my tiny house no matter what anyone says, how in the hell can something be too small?
They don't have to live in it, face it they just want to get paid more money.
Just like it's insane to pay for your land that YOU bought like 10 years or 50 years ago.
The government and others are greedy.
- 9:59
California DIY, shipping container tiny home and a cargo trailer bedroomby kirstendirksen350,346 views
- 26:52
2011 SHOTGUN HOUSE TOURby PlanetTango27,316 views
- 6:29
Totally Amazing Technology for small house.mp4by siddharthnshah72,230 views
- 12:04
Tim Guiles: Conversations in Tiny Houseby georgpackard18,880 views
- 10:10
16 year old builds tiny home to guarantee mortgage-free futureby kirstendirksen586,998 views
- 13:15
Stephen Marshall: Little Houses on Wheelsby georgpackard5,764 views
- 9:02
Louis Burns, Austin Tiny Houseby jimbruno29,236 views
- 5:16
My Tiny House Tour for TinyHouseTalk.comby TheresaLovesToDance87,541 views
- 8:32
Completed Tiny House Tour.AVIby AustinTinyHouse6,015 views
- 6:09
Bill Brooks Tiny Solar Houseby tinyhouseblog18,230 views
- 5:57
Small Space, Big Style #02 (1/4)by hajimenoipposong62,879 views
- 9:03
Little House Constructionby travis16200211,182 views
- 9:00
NEED TO KNOW Living large A look inside the tiny house movement PBSby jet3m201,163 views
- 9:45
Tiny House Interview with Jay Shafer, Part 1 of 2by TinyHouseTalk1,507 views
- 10:40
How To Build A MicroHome by Walt Barrettby chinadepot87,335 views
- 7:35
How to have a home with no house payments and no utility bills!by solarcabin500,320 views
- 5:02
Tiny home on wheels: an illegally small homeby kirstendirksen126,072 views
- 3:12
Living Smallby BellMuseum106,403 views
- 4:43
Jay Shafer's Tumbleweed Box Bungalowby tinyhouseblog8,729 views
damn the government trying to stop us from living in small homes!!! i should be free to live in a tent if i want to.
bronaldtrump 6 months ago 14
Enforced consumerism. What next forcing everyone to buy health insurance?
OldSchl4evr 2 months ago 8