Tiny Houses for BC

BC’s housing crisis is in full swing. Insufficient supply and skyrocketing prices, along with municipal commitments to health and sustainability (including green building), necessitate creative housing options. These options must also be affordable, equitable, ecologically sustainable, and conducive to long-term health. Tiny houses may be one opportunity to address these diverse needs. (See Go Tiny campaign document for details).

However, mobile tiny houses are not legally recognized as viable, permanent residential units in most municipalities across BC. Across the province, people who want to go tiny are being denied this housing option, or else living illegally and insecurely in mobile units.

If enough people sign their local petitions, we’ll be able to convince mayoral and council candidates in your municipality to include mobile tiny houses in their election platform this October and, when elected, to work on legalizing tiny houses by creating municipal zoning for mobile tiny houses and supporting tiny house amendments to the BC building code.