Tiny homes roll into San Diego aiming to combating housing crisis

County planners will now allow tiny homes on wheels to qualify as standalone homes in unincorporated areas of San Diego.

Rebuilding Green executive director Genny Crane said you can call them tiny homes, mobile homes or chassis homes, but by all means do not call them trailers.

“There's been this horrible stigma that's tied to tiny homes because they're on wheels,” she said. “People want to call them the dirty word, which is ‘trailers,’ and they're not trailers.”

She said the most attractive thing about tiny homes is the price. Base prices fall between $60,000- $100,000.

“I say for the price of one home in San Diego, you can have a whole tiny home village,” she said.

County planners greenlit tiny homes to bring that threshold down.

As she walked around the first model home out of sev