Fractional Mobile Home VS Tiny Home

According to Rocket Mortgage the average tiny home cost is around $300 / sq ft compared to the average site built cost of only $167 / sq ft. And manufactured housing costs only around $85 / sq ft. And from RubyHome, the average size of a tiny home is 225 sq ft. And so the question one might ask is why not take a singlewide of around 80' x 15' and divvy it up into four equal parts. This makes for four 300 sq ft homes on one chassis at an approximate cost of $25,000 vs $90,000 for the tiny home equivalent. This strategy realizes the least expensive way of delivering dwellings with square footage as good or better than the average tiny home, exploiting the high production capacity already developed by the mobile home industry.

At the same time the mobile home industry has developed the mobile home park. Some 50,000 such parks in the US provide both a ready destination and a template for high volume distribution. It is proposed to adapt this template specifically to the singlewide tiny house community as the right way of creating the 'tiny town.'

By adapting the mobile home to comprise four tiny homes and by adapting the mobile home park to the tiny town, the tiny home concept can proliferate into a serious competitor of the site built suburban subdivision. The tiny town envisioned below positions four, four unit singlewides around a central square. A cloistered garden is formed creating a sense of enclosure and refuge much more pleasant to be in compared to the typical mobile home park. Homes wrapped around an interior garden park were all the rage in the 19th century - one of the finest examples found in the London Collingham Garden project of of Harold Peto and Ernest George.

Finally each unit is given its own supplemental storage unit, storage integrated into the design so it seems to belong where you see it in contrast to the ad hoc free standing shed commonly found in the typical trailer park.