Dornob | Design Ideas Daily

Posted: 10 Feb 2016 11:27 AM PST

As the American dream of home ownership becomes more and more elusive for many folks, ingenious minds are working on solutions, from the "tiny house movement" to portable homes to going off the grid. Well, now there's the 20K House! Rural Studio, an architecture program of Auburn University in Alabama, had an interesting challenge: Succeeding groups of students, since 2005, had to create prototypes for homes that would cost just $20,000 – that's the highest number the average Social Security recipient could afford in terms of a mortgage, a person living below the poverty line. Read more…