On Route 6 in Bedford Station, Prince Edward Island, a retired jack of all trades is on a mission. Jim Walmsley spends long days clearing part of his 25-acre property with the goal of opening a tiny home community for those priced out of the market.
Tiny homes still have unsettled legal and regulatory questions that could affect his plans, but Walmsley’s well versed in them. His first home, purchased in rural Nova Scotia when he was 20, measured about 12 by 18 feet. He loved its efficiency, making his quest a natural fit.
His tiny home community, about a 10-minute drive from Charlottetown, would be an intentional collective of like-minded people. For the adventurous or unfussy community-minded individual, Walmsley’s utopia might represent an affordable plot of paradise in the pastoral P.E.I. countryside. His vision won’t solve the housing affordability crisis, but it could help some people escape it. Click here to read the full story.
