Alternative housing choices

Tiny houses

https://www.thespruce.com/super-affordable-tiny-homes-that-will-inspire-3017220

Jeff Wilson, known as Professor Dumpster, lived in one for a year on campus in Austin Texas.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/07/education/edlife/learning-to-live-small-in-a-...

Another man, in Brooklyn, NY, took it to another level:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us1gaJSy9ro

Professor Wilson went on to design a modular system he calls Kasita:

https://thefullest.com/2018/09/25/own-your-own-tiny-home-with-kasita/

I really like the interior space in these.

This might be my favorite, as I have a similar spot on my ridgetop

I'm more into Earth houses/Earthships, they appeal to my hobbit heritage :)
https://blog.allplan.com/en/earth-houses
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthship

WARNING ... Construction safety alert to Sandra and everyone else in this sustainability group:

As of 2020, the world's entire available literature on alternative housing, root cellar construction, wine cave construction, earthship construction, basement remodeling and the like (extending even to greenhouse construction) all overlook a devastating threat to human health. Radioactive isotopes and other airborne contaminants are a predictable health threat that arises and can become concentrated in enclosed ground-level or underground spaces over much of the Earth. Consequently, any such construction efforts must include not only adequate flooring construction methods (no dirt floors or bare stone floors or walls, sorry) but also robust air sampling and reporting methods for any such underground or ground-level enclosed spaces. For example, across much of the Earth, radon gas is one such obvious menace. There are others.

A school in the desert designed to be comfortable at temperatures up to 50C.

https://architecture.live/the-rajkumari-ratnavati-girls-school-jaisalmer-diana-k...

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Inside California's tiny-home takeover
Kelsey Neubauer | Feb 24, 2023
https://www.businessinsider.com/adu-tiny-homes-affordable-housing-california-law...

MycoHab. Building blocks made from waste materials of mushroom cultivation, in Namibia:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eErryHpZwkc