Our three small-footprint, non-toxic, fireproof adobe home designs are ready!
Why does “affordable housing” have to wear out before your mortgage is over?
These homes are designed to last for 300 years.
What makes these affordable?
1.) They are small. Small is Beautiful!
2.) They will be built on district utilities, like in an RV park or Manufactured Housing Community. That means you don’t have to drill your own well, dig your own septic or run your own power lines.
3.) They will be built on Community Land Trust land. You don’t have to buy the land. Instead, you would pay a modest lot lease fee.
4.) They will be built with student and volunteer labor, lowering the labor costs.
Our 400 square foot home
We’d like to build ten of these on a single commercial septic system.
Our 600 square foot home
A larger version, also designed for renewable district utilities.
Our 150 square foot “Thrival Cabin”
Our workforce housing cabin, with a 12 foot ceiling and a loft. Ten units will share a common bathroom building.
(A huge shout out to Joseph Kennedy and to Bryan Hyde for finalizing these designs!)
The pricepoint of each of these homes depends on many factors that we don’t yet know, but we finished one prototype (the 150 sq. ftr.) in June 2025 and are working on the second one now (the 600 sq. ftr.) to gather the data. We will keep you posted!
We would like to build whole prototype neighborhoods of each design on our 52 acres.
What do you think?
Crooked Forest Institute 