One major reason? Piles of student debt, 300% more than millennials’ parents, and a need to live in more expensive urban areas, which have the best job opportunities. Census data, millennial Americans are half as likely to own a home as a young adult in 1975. That’s in part because home ownership is a dream that’s far away for many millennials: According to the Urban Institute, fewer millennials are buying homes compared to previous generations, and those that do, buy later. Honestly, this video may entertain you guys but makes me cry.”Īs housing costs continue to rise and space becomes the ultimate luxury, governments, companies, and nonprofits in the real world have looked to tiny homes as the answer to homelessness, to disaster relief, to income inequality, to the refugee crisis, and to overcrowded cities. In response to Turner’s four-by-four tiny house video, one person wrote, “In Hong Kong, we spent our whole life to buy a flat with this size. While many of the commenters on Deligracy’s and Turner’s videos compliment their design skills, some also lament how living in tiny spaces has become a reality for many people, especially those in urban areas. “Out of all of the house builds on my channel, typically rank among the most popular, sometimes outperforming lavish mansion builds!” Turner tells Fast Company via email. Advertisement: Sub-sections: Skintones 26Clothing 1572Hair 250Eyes 174Tattoos 41Makeup. Players can also download the house to play with themselves. One of Turner’s early tiny house videos, in which he designs a fully functional Sims house with kitchen, bathroom, bed, and dresser that can fit within a four-by-four square (a square is the standard building unit in the game), has 4.7 million views. “I know what I want it to look like, and what tiny space it has to fit within, but it’s a matter of getting the game to actually work the way I want to and have everything be functional for game play.” “I love making them, it’s like trying to put a puzzle together,” he tells Fast Company via email. It’s also appropriate given that The Sims originally began as an architecture simulator, with the Sims themselves existing only to test out how well a house functioned.įor James Turner, another Australian who runs a popular channel called The Sim Supply, with 1.1 million subscribers, building tiny homes is an ideal challenge. Click this and it will immediately load the Create-A-Sim screen. A similar icon and button is also present in the panel of Edit Town.

That same interest has translated over to The Sims, in part because building such a small house that can fit all the basics–and that Sims characters can still use–is a difficult proposition in virtual space, too. To create a Sim, the player will be immediately presented with a tab at the bottom left of the neighborhood screen labelled 'Create Sims'.

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