New Bill Could Legitimize Tiny Houses Around Washington

It sounds like the need for tiny houses to be on wheels may be about to go away…

The digest:

Prohibits certain local governments from regulating or restricting the minimum gross floor area for single-family detached dwellings.

Quoted from the article:

There’s a bill making its way through the Washington legislature that could bring tiny houses above-board in some municipalities. EHB 1123, introduced in the House by Brian Blake (D-19), would eliminate minimum gross floor space for single-family homes in cities with populations under 125,000 — potentially making permanent small dwellings an imminent reality everywhere in the state except Seattle, Spokane, Tacoma, and Vancouver.

Currently, many tiny homes skirt regulations by operating as either attached dwelling units (e.g. backyard cottages) or as recreational vehicle trailers (You may have noticed some wheels on the tiniest of the tiny), but this legislation could pave the way for the tiniest of tiny homes to sit on their own land and have their own concrete foundations.

This appears to be the bill in question.