Luxury Tiny Homes Are Taking Over This College Campus
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Whether you've recently graduated from university or it's been decades since you hung up your cap and gown, one thing you remember is how dorm life treated you. Every campus boasts different living situations. Some offer four-person suite-style rooms that share a bathroom, others provide single sleeping options, and who could forget the stereotypical dorm which slept two to a (tiny) room and had every person on the floor sharing a communal bathroom?
Many campuses take student accommodations up a notch and offer university housing options, which are typically apartments owned by the school. These can be more comfortable than dorm rooms, but, in most cases, are usually boring and basic. However, one college in North Carolina—High Point University (HPU)—has come up with an alternative to bland university housing that's as whimsical as it is trendy: They've created a tiny home community.
The Instagram account @tinyhouse.top posted a reel showing off HPU's adorable little student neighborhood, and it blew up with over 23,000 likes. But this is no new idea! HPU has been spotlighting this housing option, which was introduced in the fall of 2022, for a while on TikTok, showing off the homes Caleb Simpson-style with a full tour of one of them.
A single tiny home is basically just like any other one-person, open concept apartment, fit with a decent kitchen, a living room, a space for a table, and a lofted bedroom with a walk-in closet. And in a major bonus, it appears that each one comes with its own outdoor space—at least enough yard for a dog to run around in during its outdoor time. In another TikTok, you can see more of the entire neighborhood of tiny homes, all with at least one parking space in the street just before the front yard.
According to the HPU website, each of the tiny homes comes equipped with a full-size bed, kitchen appliances, and a furnished living area complete with a study desk, and the total square footage is around 500 square feet. They are a bit on the higher end of the rental spectrum, coming in at $17,541 per year, or around $1,462 per month. But the location, along with the opportunity to live by oneself, is what makes these options so appealing. As the student in the video says towards the end, his classes are within walking distance and the basketball arena is right across the road. Plus, it's located near other housing options and the new Panther Commons residence hall as well, which has a gym, exercise classes, a barbershop, and a nail salon.
Though these tiny homes are not as affordable as other campus housing, they come with a good number of perks. If you were still in school would a tiny house be part of your big dreams?
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