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Developer pushes tiny homes as solution to affordable housing crisis

Dan Dobrowolski has been building small houses for two decades and believes they provide homeowners what they need and are more humane than traditional apartment blocks.

  • By Louis Llovio
  • | 5:00 a.m. August 23, 2024
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Dan Dobrowolski, CEO of Escape Homes', is the developer behind the tiny home community Escape Tampa Bay Village.
Dan Dobrowolski, CEO of Escape Homes', is the developer behind the tiny home community Escape Tampa Bay Village.
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As housing costs continue at a level making it difficult — if not impossible — for many Floridians to afford buying a house, there is a small community in Hillsborough County where you can buy one for less than $100,000.

No, that’s not a misprint. In late July the community had a house listed for $95,000.

 

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