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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Robert Booth Social affairs correspondent

Priced-out UK house-hunters turn to lorry-sized tiny homes

Robert Booth visits a tiny home
Tiny homes are shaped to a lorry’s dimensions so they can pass under road bridges. Photograph: Martin Godwin/The Guardian

You might bump your head, and the wheels betray its caravan roots, but it’s yours – and that’s the key for a growing number of people fleeing the UK housing crisis in a “tiny home”.

Factory-built, shaped to a lorry’s dimensions so that they can pass under road bridges, and styled to feel like a backwoods cabin, tiny homes are attracting people struggling to afford soaring rents, living in vans or whose hopes of buying have evaporated with rising interest rates.

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