{"id":81218,"date":"2018-08-01T16:42:22","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T23:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/miracle-in-midtown-tiny-house-may-be-answer-to-a-global-crisis"},"modified":"2018-08-04T10:01:03","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T17:01:03","slug":"miracle-in-midtown-tiny-house-may-be-answer-to-a-global-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/miracle-in-midtown-tiny-house-may-be-answer-to-a-global-crisis","title":{"rendered":"Miracle in Midtown: Tiny House May Be Answer to a Global Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/miracle-in-midtown-tiny-house-may-be-answer-to-a-global-crisis.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As heat and humidity soared and New Yorkers slowed their famously fast strides to cope, a small miracle happened in Midtown: A single-family house was assembled in three days.<\/p>\n<p>The tiny 22-square-meter (237-square-foot) prototype, on display on United Nations Plaza, is designed for a family of four. It\u2019s self-sustaining, producing drinkable water from the air, energy from the sun and food from a vertical vegetable garden embedded in the exterior walls. And at an expected price of about $35,000, it may provide an affordable answer to a global housing shortage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this climate, this home would produce enough food for a family of four for about 260 days\u201d out of a year, said Anna Dyson, a professor of architecture and forestry and environmental studies at Yale University. \u201cIn better climates \u2014 in Africa, for example \u2014 it could actually produce a surplus of food.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-08-01\/miracle-in-midtown-tiny-house-may-be-answer-to-a-global-crisis\">https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018&#45;08&#45;01\/m...bal-crisis<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As heat and humidity soared and New Yorkers slowed their famously fast strides to cope, a small miracle happened in Midtown: A single-family house was assembled in three days. The tiny 22-square-meter (237-square-foot) prototype, on display on United Nations Plaza, is designed for a family of four. It\u2019s self-sustaining, producing drinkable water from the air, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81334,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81218\/revisions\/81334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}