Green Houses More Affordable
By Nick December 27, 2007
You can become a homeowner if you are willing to move into a small house like Jay Shafer’s tiny house or Marianne Cusato’s cottages. They are cheaper and more important, green. Shafer built his first house ten years ago which he called it the Tumbleweed house. The house measured 100-square feet. Nowadays he lives in a 70-square feet house called the Weebee. Shafer’s tiny house uses only $3 for energy per month. The Tumbleweed Tiny House Company was founded by Jay Shafer and it offers houses ranging between 60-square feet and 600-square feet with the option “built and delivered”.
Now let’s get back to Marianne Cusato. The New York designer built an alternative to the FEMA trailer for the communities affected by Katrina and Rita hurricanes. The cottages are meant for resisting the hurricane winds. The first cottage for the victims of Katrina was 308-square feet. Marianne Cusato was awarded for her small house design and last summer The Congress allocated $400 million for an emergency housing program. The cottages are ranging between 544-square feet and 1800-square feet, and the price for the smallest cottage is $27,000.
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