Robert Lanter lives in a 600-square-foot house that can be traversed in five seconds and vacuumed from a single outlet. He doesn’t have a coffee table in the living room because it would obstruct the front door. When relatives come to visit, Mr. Lanter says jokingly, but only partly, they have to tour one at time.
Each of these details amounts to something bigger, for Mr. Lanter’s life and the U.S. housing market: a house under $300,000, something increasingly hard to find. That price allowed Mr. Lanter, a 63-year-old retired nurse, to buy a new single-family home in a subdivision in Redmond, Ore., about 30 minutes outside Bend, where he is from and which is, along with its surrounding area, one of Oregon’s most expensive housing markets.
Mr. Lanter’s house could easily fit on a flatbed truck, and is dwarfed by the two-story suburban homes that prevail on the blocks around him. But, in fact, there are even smaller homes in his subdivision, Cinder Butte, which was developed by a local builder called Hayden Homes. Some of his neighbors live in houses that total just 400 square feet — a 20-by-20-foot house attached to a 20-by-20-foot garage.
This is not a colony of “tiny houses,” popular among minimalists and aesthetes looking to simplify their lives. For Mr. Lanter and his neighbors, it’s a chance to hold on to ownership.
“Single-family home” is a direct quote from the article.
I understand single bedroom home, but they’re framing it as a family home
“Single family home” is a legal description, not propaganda the author made up.
So it’s propaganda the government made up.
It’s opposed to multiple family duplex or apartments
It’s a shed.
I think the idea of building a stand alone building of 200sqft had just never been considered.
Which tells me it wasn’t well thought out tbh
“Single familiy” is standard real estate and legal terminology. It means “a structure intended to be occupied by one family”. As opposed to “multi-family”, which means a structure designed for 2 or more families, like a duplex or an apartment building. The word “family” does not imply a specific number of people or bedrooms. A married couple with no children is still a family.