Tiny House Design

My dad passed this Wall Street Journal story onto me today. It’s the story of Jakob Fugger, an extremely rich and influential banker that lived about 500 years ago. One of the philanthropic things he did was to build a village of small homes and apartments for people that needed them. The homes ranged in size from 500 to 700 square feet.

The property was put into trust and continues today with about 150 residents. The rent hasn’t gone up either. It costs about $1.23 a year but there’s one catch. Residents must pray daily for the Fugger and his descendants. To be precise, before moving in residents promise to say three prayers daily: the Lord’s Prayer, Hail Mary and the Apostles’ Creed. The required prayers aside this sounds like a pretty good idea for today’s collapsing housing market. Maybe someone in a position to create something amazing will read the article and take action. Maybe? Photo credit WSJ. Read the original article.

Similar Posts

You might like these posts too...

		Focus on the Future – Small is beautiful and eminently livable – By Michael Mehta Back in November I posted the story of Michael Mehta’s small house on Gabriola Island in British Columbia. Shortly after that Michael mentioned to me that he was working on an article that focused on the benefits of simple living and small homes. To help with the research I reached out to you, my readers,
		Tiny Texas Houses in the News I just spotted this article on Tiny Texas Houses and the tiny house movement in general. Tiny Texas Houses build tiny homes from renewable materials and salvaged stuff. These little houses are a nice example of how old items can be reused to make something new. The article spotlights some people who’ve bought these tiny houses
		Solar Powered P-Pods for South Africa One of my regular readers, Malcolm, spotted my post on A House for Khayelitsha an remembered an article he saw back in July about a home builder in Hillsboro, Oregon that’s in the process of building 40,000 small homes that will be sent to South African townships by 2010. The homes are being built by Tim Cornell and

Follow on Facebook and Twitter @TinyHouseDesign and/or @MichaelJanzen.
Subscribe to Tiny House Design by Email and/or RSS.