Boston Wants People To Build Tiny Houses In Their Yards [CityLab.com]

Samantha Sangenito 5/14/184:00 AM

Last week, a prototype of a simple, 360-square-foot dwelling called the Plugin House appeared outside Boston City Hall. The crisp white box, unfurnished but with portals for plumbing and electricity ready to go, took about 5 hours for a five-person team to assemble. It’s the brainchild of James Shen, who is in Boston this year from China as a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, and it represents something significant: In a city where everything from roof decks to chicken coops is strictly regulated, Boston is encouraging residents to build little houses in their backyards.

[For more of this story, written by Anthony Flint, go to https://www.citylab.com/design...ir-backyards/560267/]

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