New subject: [Shelter] Tiny houses made for homeless in West Oak

4 Nov 2014

Here's a link to a few images of a low cost "Tiny Home" concept based on
truck camper RV's which are available for free or very cheap:
https://plus.google.com/u/1/photos/106839673035751587991/albums/60779607855…

The catch is that the jacks used to raise and lower these campers are no
longer functional due to structural issues with the wood frame. So I
devised a way in which the camper can be rolled onto the back of a car
trailer and then rolled off onto a wood platform foundation. You can see
this in some of the attached images.

One advantage of the truck camper is that it is not technically a "RV"
since it has no wheels plus it is less than 120 square ft. So if you have a
property to put one of these on then no permit is required. However, people
absolutely hate these things so I modify it to make it look like a small
shed.

I have two of these tiny homes setup now, one in Marin near China Camp and
another in the NE corner of California on a 10 acre farm. There's also an
image included of a tent cabin which is technically a "fabric covered
agricultural processing structure" in the eyes of the law. The land use is
described as a "Tree Sanctuary" where we rescue small endangered trees and
reintroduce them into the wild, hence the justification for occupying the
property which we own freely with no mortgage or other banking encumbrances.

On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 1:03 PM, Autonomous &lt;autonomous666(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

...
  I attached a few images of a low cost "Tiny
Home" concept based on truck
 camper RV's which are available for free or very cheap. The catch is that
 the jacks used to raise and lower these campers are no longer functional
 due to structural issues with the wood frame. So I devised a way in which
 the camper can be rolled onto the back of a car trailer and then rolled off
 onto a wood platform foundation. You can see this in some of the attached
 images.

 One advantage of the truck camper is that it is not technically a "RV"
 since it has no wheels plus it is less than 120 square ft. So if you have a
 property to put one of these on then no permit is required. However, people
 absolutely hate these things so I modify it to make it look like a small
 shed.

 I have two of these tiny homes setup now, one in Marin near China Camp and
 another in the NE corner of California on a 10 acre farm. There's also an
 image attached of a tent cabin which is technically a "fabric covered
 agricultural processing structure" in the eyes of the law. The land use is
 described a "Tree Sanctuary" where we rescue small endangered trees and
 reintroduce them into the wild, hence the justification for occupying the
 property which we own freely with no mortgage or other banking encumbrances.

 On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 12:18 PM, &lt;hol(a)gaskill.com&gt; wrote:

   whoa spaced out there...yeah it's been a
while!  early DEC sound good?
 I've been doing alot of scheming but near zero construction.  I think it'd
 be cool to actually build something, like a 4'x4'x8' sleeping/storage
 module simple enough that 5-10 people could make a prototype in a weekend.

 On 2014-11-04 12:06, Cris Shirley wrote:

  Hello Tiny House Crew!

 What's the latest on the Tiny House Caucus and Shelter planning for an
 East Bay Tiny House village/trailer park.

 I'm looking to get a tiny house soon and want to see where others are at
 and if we have any movement that I've missed out on over the summer.

 I'd love to get a meeting together if others are interested.  Looks like
 the East Bay Tiny House meetup group has one scheduled for December 21st,
 but another one sooner and less in conflict with holiday time would be
 great too!

 Best,

  Cris Shirley

 On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 10:35 PM, Hol Gaskill &lt;hol(a)gaskill.com&gt; wrote:

  we had a meeting maybe 2 months ago RE building a
fleet of trailerable
 tiny homes, probably overdue for another.

 Here is a list set up for discussion of tiny homes, including
 construction, social justice / housing, property search, all aspects of the
 discussion: https://tentacle.net/mailman/listinfo/shelter  however
 there hasn't been that much traffic yet.  Seems like we should start
 hashing out some details and getting people organized a bit into whatever
 aspects of the tiny home movement they are most interested in hacking on.

 just made a pad with the minutes from the first and so far only meeting
 that i know of - https://pad.riseup.net/p/TinyHomeCaucus feel free to
 just flesh out the minutes and add your thoughts wherever as it's just a
 loose list of topics.

 I should have some open bandwidth in the next few weeks - anyone for
 meeting up to discuss?  Last meeting was at a bar, would propose to do same
 for next.

 cheers,
 hol

 Mar 6, 2014 10:00:42 PM, owens.marcus(a)gmail.com wrote:
 Hey all- I think this topic is super important given the gentrification
 and housing crisis in our area, the increasing eviction of encampments such
 as at the recent clearing of the camp at the southend of lake merritt
 around the convention center, etc. I think there's also a lot of potential
 to go beyond the sculptural practice of this guys work given organizing
 networks and capacities of a place like sudo, not to mention the temperate
 climate of the bay area. Could this conversation be worthy of some sort of
 "Right to the City/Hack the City" working group? Would love to connecting
 with others interested in developing this conversation..

 a priori, a few potentially relevant precedents
from the arch/design  world:

Materials:
Superuse Studios: cataloging waste materials from industrial ecologies  to be used
for building projects.
 http://superuse-studios.com/index.php/category/platforms/

Construction:
Architect Teddy Cruz has been working on developing frameworks for safe 
informal/DIY housing in Tijuana/San Diego.

 http://www.california-architects.com/en/estudio/projects-3/Manufactured_Sit…

Landscape/Site: 
 Urban Code: UC berkeley project to catalog and
network interstitial  city-owned land in
SF.http://nicholas.demonchaux.com/Work/local-code

   >m

   >On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 4:46 PM,
Vicky Knox vknoxsironi(a)gmail.com&gt;
 wrote:

 Heh glad this thread is so popular! Any response
yet from this guy? On  a related note, I'm part of a listserv* where talk of
tiny houses has been
 really hot. Let me know if you want access.

 *Spaghetti Night. It is a great portal into (one of) the Berkeley
 co-op/weirdo universe(s).

 >2014-03-03 10:06 GMT-08:00 Hol Gaskill hol(a)gaskill.com&gt;gt;:

 hah the look on his face must've been
priceless!  i was scheming on  said conestoga wagon, decided to get a few flatbeds
under my belt first.
 hopefully have something to report on this month!

 cheers,
 hol

 on Mar 02, 2014, Gabrielle Silverman gabbywingnut(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

   Hey it's definitely real, I know
somebody who got one of the tiny houses.

 Also on the "what if... occupy" tip I was once involved with a community
 garden in the south bronx that kept getting bulldozed and rebuilt over and
 over. Kicking off one of the re-occupations we built a little cassita in
 pieces in another garden around the corner and then carried it all over and
 screwed it together one night to announce the rebirth of the encampment.

 Best moment was dude from the city the first morning talking into his
 cell phone: "They have a house. I repeat a HOUSE. They're more organized
 than we thought they were..."

 gabby

 On Mar 2, 2014 5:54 PM, "Chris Bee" hotelcompany(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

 I'm not calling shenanigans, but...I haven't seen any of these around,
 and I spend a lot of time in WSO. Should I call that number and volunteer
 my services? Assuming the article's legit and not just a puff piece, this
 sounds like a project that sudo should be working with.

 Even if it's BS, I recall someone- quite
possibly from sudo- mentioning  a bike trailer/Conestoga wagon type thing that
sounded pretty cool. I don't
 remember whether they built it or were planning to build it...anyone?

 -chrisbee

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