Built on a trailer frame, a tiny home by Hope Construction will be the first in a new development aimed at providing space for people to bring their tiny homes into a new community, which will feature both homes on wheels and manufactured tiny homes on stem walls./ Jake Bacon/Arizona Daily Sun
Adrian Skabelund | Arizona Daily Sun
For the first time, Flagstaff residents may have a legal way to live in a tiny house — that is, after the completion of a new tiny house village by local company Hope Construction.
The company signed a development agreement with the city last month allowing them to build a mobile home park on a currently undeveloped 2.9-acre piece of land at the intersection of Soliere Avenue and Fourth Street.
In a city that has seen a boom in large-scale developments, and in which affordable housing is top of mind for many, Hope Construction owner David Carpenter said he wants to build a community that provides housing for every kind of local resident.
“I want to prove that this is a new paradigm for mobile home parks,” Carpenter said. “Someone’s not going to come along here in 40 years and say, ‘oh, there’s a better use for this, let’s tear all these down.
