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You really should try and not express such vehement opinions on a subject your have no clue about.
Pretty much everything you said is inaccurate and made up in your imagination.
There are no "owners of the building" except the homeowners.
You escrow RESERVES for roofing etc. It's in your MONTHLY HOA FEE.
Your condo fees only go up if the UNIT OWNERS and their decisions either mismanaged their monies OR VOTED for it. - aside from some natural inflation.
For ME, mine went up $5.00 per month in 10 years.
You likewise, only have an assessment if there's a disaster OR if the homeowners vote for it.
There is a complete yearly accounting of every PENNY that is incoming or outgoing BY LAW. Certified by a CPA/management legal firm. And every month the topic of finances is addressed by the boards, the homeowners and even voted on. At scheduled meetings.
You have quite the imagination.
250 people in my community are paying HOA dues stupidly without even knowing what's going on with their money?
Uh, NOPE. My Condo HOA in FL was established in 1987. My particular building was demolished with others in a 2004 hurricane and speedily rebuilt. I bought my unit in 2009 BECAUSE THEY HAD 3 MILLION IN RESERVES. With every dime allocated on paper as to how they came to that figure.
We also PAY an experienced, professional management company to run the joint. And they do an EXCELLENT job in concert with our volunteer board members. Furthermore, it's 55+ as so many are, and this makes them regulated by THE STATE, too.
There are tons of condo complexes in Florida with no reserves. They are allowed to opt out of it. It keeps the monthly fee lower, but of course it means the current owners end up with assessments for any major repairs or maintenance.
Also, easier said than done as far as a responsive Board. Where I live the Board never changes, I swear they will be there until they die. They never get voted out because the other owners don't want to be on the board. If you're not on the board's good side, you'll never get a chance to serve on it. I tried and because the Condo President doesn't like me, he nixed even a vote on me, and all the sheeple went along with it.
What I would like to see is a show on how many people are still in their tiny homes after a few years. Some of them have clever designs but tiny is still tiny, no matter how you build it. There are things you just can't get away from, like composting toilets, which would have their own inherent "issues" if you know what I mean.
Then there is the factor of just living in such cramped quarters. Even in a blissful relationship there are going to be times when you just want some privacy and that would seem to be a difficult thing to have living in a birdcage. I just don't see how a family of four (or more) could live in one of those things without killing each other after a while.
Personally, I think they "might" be okay if it was used as a weekend retreat or vacation spot. As a permanent residence, there is no way I could do it.
From experience with another "Tiny House homeless recovery program", this has already been tried in other cities and the failures are not getting the press/media coverage it deserves!
If just 1 out of 5 tiny homes or apartments or social welfare buildings are damaged to a point of unlivable for the next resident then the project has run into failure. I have seen well intentioned tenants with "mental disorders" flood a tiny home. I have seen well intentioned tenants who were good people leave the doors open to the house causing water damage from rain storm. Finally, I have seen the "my child" card played that caused a tiny home to be sanctioned as permanent living till child became an adult.
Yes, I don't know enough about this program to know for sure, but my feeling is that those in charge have studied a lot about the pitfalls of previous programs. It is my understanding that this is for single veterans, not multiple people. There will be an onsite coordinator for each pod of 12 residents.
When I had my house, it wasn't quite 1000 sq ft. The only rooms I used were the kitchen, living room, bathroom, and bedroom. I figured that to be a little under 800 sq ft and that was more than enough for me. It was the biggest bedroom I'd ever had, so that space sure didn't seem small. I've seen 400 sq ft homes I could live in forever, but I probably wouldn't want to get much smaller than that.
What's interesting is so many of our parents raised their families in houses that were only about 1000 sq ft. They probably can't understand why a couple living in a 2500 sq ft house today complain about not having enough room. I really don't think it's about the sq ft, I think it's more about what people are used to. If larger houses had never appeared on the market, most of us today would be perfectly happy living in much smaller living quarters than we currently are.
Awwww, nobody wants the reality check. They want to be fed fantasies.
Reality says no matter how tiny the abode, the human poopage remains unchanged, and that still must be managed basically the same way as for any size home.
I tried living in a 360 S.F. condo at the shore. It had a living room, kitchenette with full-size but small refrigerator, bathroom w/tub, bedroom that accommodated a queen bed and had a good-size closet. I had to rent a storage unit to keep all my other "stuff". It got to be a pain not having a washer/dryer in the unit, also the soundproofing between units (it was a converted motel) was horrible so it sounded like elephants walking upstairs. It wouldn't have been bad for just weekends but full-time was a bit much.
I tend to think developments of tiny houses will end up looking just like trailer parks, because they're not going to be on big expensive plots of hand like some of those photos show. And the ones the showed at the bottom in the failed project -- well, they were pretty ugly to begin with.
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