people need room to bounce around in private, within the walls of their own home.  When I was a boy we moved onto a 36 foot powerboat.  There is not much space in a boat that size.  A few steps and you are in the galley (kitchen) and one more you are in the restroom.  It is similar to living in a trailer, and for me it was a step up from the 22 footer we had lived in before.  The whole idea of subjecting your child to living in something that small is beyond me, but I’m not going to digress into that.  Having an affordable, small home is a need for a lot of folks,  and I think it can be accomplished with not only storage, which I have pointed out in an earlier post, but with indoor-outdoor living.  Shaping the house in a “U” for instance, and having a “great room” or open covered space that the living area and bedrooms open too, then having smaller covered private patios off each bedroom is a way the mid century designers gave expanse to smaller spaces.  Living on a boat as a kid I learned to spend the majority of my life outside, and the marina provided a “Mayberry” small town atmosphere and safe haven for me.  In a development of small homes it would be crucial to provide a lot of outdoor living spaces close to clusters of homes and secure from public view.