Tiny Houses - New Oregon Law

While not my CURRENT choice of living or camping choice, we have considered this in the past...

With that in mind, Oregon just passed a new law (sure to be challenged in the Courts by Manufacturers and current owners) to prevent tiny houses from being registered and licensed. They are making sure that tiny houses are excluded from being registered as RV's and now are subjected to Construction Building Codes instead.

More here:

https://rv-pro.com/news/oregon-ends-state-s-option-movable-tiny-houses

Now, one has to ask why this is coming about...Let's look at some possible reasons...

1) Tiny Houses and RV's DO NOT pay property taxes.
2) The government CANNOT CONTROL where you live or YOU.
3) They have a hard time TRACKING YOU whenever you move.
4) You don't SPEND very much.
5) You are considered LOW CLASS and a drain on society when you don't have a 3,000 sq foot house.

There are a number of "other" possible reasons. These are just a few I can think of.

Why else would you BAN tiny houses? What's next? RVs?

Keep your passport up to date...

Actually I tend to agree with the law based on requiring building codes and inspections. They are more a structure than a vehicle.

I also think anything that is an "RV" should have the ability to at a minimum hold some water and waste and not be required to have hook ups to be habitable.

Just my 2¢.

I guess that there are some folks that should not have small houses on the road.

Some under size the trailer for the house. They put way undersized axles under it. They have no storage tanks and would generally have to hard pipe the plumbing. In this case, I would have to agree.

But, there are some who can build one right and there are companies that can do it right. In those cases, how can they say no?

I don't know the specific law you are referring to, but I would suspect if the structure has a VIN # then it probably would be considered an RV, and if it doesn't then it isn't.

Just my guess......

If you think about it though - a mobile home has a vin, but depending on what state you plant it, the laws are different. We had a mobile home at the lake in NE, and rather than put plates on it, we had to put a property tax sticker in the window. The lot it was on was leased from the railroad for 99 years so I didn't really own it.

We stayed in Florida a couple years ago & noticed while touring some of the area rv parks that the park models, mobile homes all had license plates mounted to the front or in the front window next to the address thus assuming they're called rvs.