This infographic from calculator.me helps people explore the rise of the tiny home movement. The movement's inspiration dates back to Thoreau's Walden, which was published in 1854.
Lester Walker wrote a guide to tiny houses in 1987, Jay Shafer founded Tumbleweed in 1999 and the housing crisis tied to the great recession caused the prices of many McMansions to crater, which helped reshape perceptions and made people more interested in living a low-cost and low-impact lifestyle.
In 2014 two reality TV shows further raised awareness of tiny homes and to this day demand is still growing with Google Trends showing a new all-time peak in demand in August 2019.
