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From One Tiny House, A Neighborhood May Grow

NPR

Published January 19, 2016 at 12:52 PM CST

Tiny houses are generally associated with quirky, self-made, 100-square-foot homes that people pull behind their car. Could they find a more permanent place in the American city? One neighborhood is willing to build one in order to find out.

Pittsburgh is getting its first tiny house: a 330-square-foot, open-concept dwelling that resembles a studio apartment with a porch and a foundation. The hope is that it will be one of many more to come. Lou Blouin from The Allegheny Front at WESA has more.

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Lou Blouin, reporter for The Allegheny Front at WESA in Pittsburgh.