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RE: Trying to Live Simply or Simply Trying to Live: Cabin Porn and Poverty Appropriation!?
I've done the tiny house thing, though it wasn't by choice. Living in a one room cottage built in the 1820s might have been picturesque, but it was a logistical nightmare and certainly more trouble than it's worth.
Of course, a modern-built tiny home is another animal altogether, and it's different when you have the option to choose the life rather than have it thrust upon you due to circumstances beyond your control. There's much in the appeal of being secure in your space that's just enough for you and the necessities, knowing tag you're living well within your means in a responsible manner, but again it's vastly different when it's that or homelessness.
A tiny house would not work for me at 6'2!
Do you think that voluntarily doing without, or living more simply, can create a space for people "who have circumstances thrust upon them" to better achieve autonomy and freedom?
Oh absolutely, it teaches you what really matters and what you can do without. Of course that can be taken to extremes; when my circumstances improved, I found myself still locked into that mindset, even though I didn't have to live that way any more. I guess I have post-tiny house stress disorder!