{"id":125,"date":"2019-01-27T20:16:36","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T20:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/archives\/?p=125"},"modified":"2019-01-27T20:54:14","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T20:54:14","slug":"dc-debuts-tiny-homes-in-deanwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/archives\/125\/","title":{"rendered":"DC Debuts Tiny Homes in Deanwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/dc.urbanturf.com\/articles\/blog\/dc-debuts-tiny-home-demonstration-in-deanwood\/14489\">dc.urbanturf.com\/articles\/blog\/dc-debuts-tiny-home-demonstration-in-deanwood\/14489<\/a><br \/>\nDC Debuts Tiny Homes in Deanwood by Nena Perry-Brown<\/p>\n<p>The tiny houses in Deanwood. Earlier this year, UrbanTurf reported on DC&#8217;s Vacant to Vibrant initiatives, one of which involves a tiny home installation. Now, that diminutive demonstration has delivered.<br \/>\nIn the rain on Monday, the Department of Community and Housing Development (DHCD) unveiled a pair of tiny homes, constructed in the 1100 block of 50th Place NE (map) in partnership with the DC Students Construction Trades Foundation.<br \/>\nstory continues below<br \/>\nstory continues above<br \/>\n An image of the tiny home demonstration site when it was still a vacant lot.. Click to enlarge. Students from the Academy of Construction and Design at IDEA Public Charter School in Northeast assembled the two houses, which were designed by Minim House.<br \/>\n&#8220;We always have to be open to some of the new ideas that are out there on affordable housing,&#8221; DHCD Director Polly Donaldson said during her introductory remarks. &#8220;[Mayor Bowser] wanted to see what a tiny home would look like, because other cities have actually used tiny homes as a way to house populations that maybe don&#8217;t need as much living space, but they need a safe and secure place to be.&#8221;<br \/>\nIt remains unclear whether the tiny homes are indicative of the mayor&#8217;s intention to pursue policy that would legalize their use in the District, whether as emergency shelter or as a less-expensive alternative to traditional housing. The length of time the tiny homes will be on display and their fates following the demonstration are still to be determined.<br \/>\nThis article originally published at <a href=\"https:\/\/dc.urbanturf.com\/articles\/blog\/dc-debuts-tiny-home-demonstration-in-deanwood\/14489\">dc.urbanturf.com\/articles\/blog\/dc-debuts-tiny-home-demonstration-in-deanwood\/14489<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mary Bolton  202-390-1208<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>dc.urbanturf.com\/articles\/blog\/dc-debuts-tiny-home-demonstration-in-deanwood\/14489 DC Debuts Tiny Homes in Deanwood by Nena Perry-Brown The tiny houses in Deanwood. Earlier this year, UrbanTurf reported on DC&#8217;s Vacant to Vibrant initiatives, one of which involves a tiny home installation. Now, that diminutive demonstration has delivered. In the rain on Monday, the Department of Community and Housing Development (DHCD) unveiled a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-housingarchive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}