How About A...: Tiny Home Park?

Hi, folks!
I've been mulling over a thought:
What would it take to legally operate a tiny home park?

A what?

Work with me for a moment. We have mobile home parks here in America, parks for homes built on trailers or sleds, and are sometimes affixed to a foundation for long term living. These units are generally 800-1,200 square feet, with a bit of variance, and can be used for long term housing of a family of several people.

But, what if we went smaller? What if we had a place for people who would like to live the tiny home lifestyle? A home of 400 square feet or less, be it on trailers, skids, or a proper foundation, with available electric and water/sewage connections, space to park one's vehicle(s), maybe even have a small yard?

American't Dream

I'm one of those dreaded millennials, born into an era where honestly, there really is not a such thing as upward mobility if you weren't born into a scenario that placed you above the water line with a parachute. I'd even argue that right now, looking forward, I'm going to face the world with lead weights on my tired ankles while trying to tread water because of where I live. Never mind how I was born, where I was born, who gave birth to me, how I understand and interpret the concept of love; I was sentenced to prison, so I will already be looked at unfavorably before people see the melanin, the shape of me, any of that in state where The Box is not Banned (as it should be).

Let's add to that the complications of housing, post-prison.
Finding a place to stay when you have a criminal record is harder when you have regressive-thinking people who only see you as the DOC number you were tagged with years ago. Your crime may be long in your past, five, ten, twenty years or more ago, but because you're 'new' to the world again and that number is fresh to that potential landlord when they ask about your history, you're passed over for someone else whose sole credit is they've not spent time in prison.
Increase the difficulty if your conviction requires you to go on an Offender Registry for any period of time (in Florida, it's for Life, with some types of offenses triggering a mandatory reporting by law enforcement to nearby neighbors that this type of offender now lives at this address).
Suddenly, no-one wants to rent to you. If you had the money to outright buy, sorry, a higher bid somehow exists.

And somehow, the American Dream of owning a home is supposed to be realized by anyone younger than a Boomer?

It's already bad as a millennial; it's worse for a formerly incarcerated millennial; it's damn near impossible for a formerly incarcerated millennial convicted of a sex offense, and the system handed down to us was crafted this way by its predecessors.

Paradigm Shift

We grew up, thinking that homes have to be vast caverns of 1,500 square feet for just us, our dog, and our stuff, taught that the American Way is to have a room for every little thing we need.

Prison, I wish on no being, not even the ones that raise my hackles, has taught me that space is what you make of it. If you learn to let go of the physical attachment of "Oh, this will be a fun project if I can find the time" or "Ah, this evokes a lovely memory" of something you only look at once in a great while, reducing items to memories (or digitized photos if you need visual memory that can be summoned on our pocket tchotchkes (... wait, phones are definitely not inexpensive, even though they're definitely showy) that we carry in the free world these days), you may find that you are on the road to needing less of a contribution to urban sprawl than your fellow compatriot. Suddenly, packing you and your dog's life (I'm not that solitary) into 400 square feet isn't as daunting as you think, and just might be one of the steps this country needs in the face of $350,000 houses of only 1,638 square feet.

Schorl will need walks to let off his indoor energy, sure, but you're already getting him some fresh air, right? :) Reducing your indoor world expands your outdoor world when you think about it: you start thinking of creative ways to use your space, and that may mean patio parties with a few guests, and enough room for you, a dog, and an eventual +1.

From there, maybe you're considering upsizing, but we're coming back to the tiny house park for now, rather than launching into that dream.

Cost Effective Modern Solution

Tiny homes are a fraction of the cost of a big box of a home to build and to live in. The time to build one on a permanent foundation is low, though there are some tricky parts to consider in the build (think downsizing).

To make a home park where twenty, thirty, even forty of these 400 square foot babies sit and enjoy hookups to the local utility grid, where people who need that opportunity to get on their feet, to live in a place where their payment for the place they stay in is something fair (*cough*$500*cough*) as opposed to "fair market value" which is frequently $1,600+...

What, exactly would it take to make that happen?

Because right now, the American Dream isn't home ownership.
It's being able to survive in a broken kingdom that's still held in the desperate clutch of a foul lich whose phylactery cannot be located as it rattles, "kleen. bewteeful. koal."

I think survival can be managed, four hundred square feet at a time.

We certainly realized this in Eugene, Oregon (Opportunity Village, I see you), and in other places in America. This realization needs a lift.

Thank you for reading.