There's been this push in recent years to promote and make cool the idea of people to live in smaller and smaller houses. I'm talking about 500 Sq. feet or less, or about the size of an average bedroom in a normal house. There is even a television show on the FYI channel called Tiny House Nation that is popularizing the idea.
So apparently it is thought by some here in the Silicon Valley that perhaps these tiny houses might make for an ideal solution to help combat the high cost of housing and the homeless problem. The City of San Jose contemplated the idea of using these tiny homes to solve the homeless problem but abandoned the idea, at least for the time being, due to there being no public land on which to build these houses. San Jose by the way, had such a problem with the homeless squatting on public lands and elsewhere that last year there was a major effort to evict the whole lot of them out of an infamous homeless encampment called the "jungle." It is an area by Coyote Creek and Story Road.
Anyhow, the link below is to an article from San Jose Inside regarding Tim McCormick, who with help of a $5M grant, is trying to develop tiny houses that he believes will make a for a perfect fit this valley.
Tiny Homes Present Big Ideas for Transforming Urban Ecosystems
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