Jay Austin's Beautiful, Illegal Tiny House
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ReasonTV profiles Jay Austin, who designed and built a small house in Washington, DC that ran afoul of local zoning rules. It shows the house and the regulations that made it illegal.
HN uses it in zoning and housing debates as an example of how rules limit small-footprint housing and building innovation.
“Zoning also kills innovation and flexibility.”
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