Five Texas tiny houses that challenge and reproduce the American Dream mythology

A recent book focused on the tiny home trend in Texas, theorises what the explosion of micro-domiciles means for contemporary American class politics and economics. Here the author select five projects from the book.

Spurred on by a 2015 conference in London called New Ideas for Housing, researchers Ella Harris, Mel Nowicki and Tim White were interested in shrinking domestic space in the industrialised countries. This led them to the "epicentre of the tiny house movement" of the 2010s, the United States.