The HomeEc Blog
Join us as we explore the root causes of America’s housing crisis and discuss HomeEc’s elegant solution: luxury tiny homes.
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When Your Mother’s Prefab Tiny Home is Stalled by an HOA
In the Dallas exurb of Wylie, Texas, Andrea and Steve Puckett face a dilemma that’s becoming commonplace in America: They need to build a prefab tiny home in their backyard, but their Homeowners Association (HOA) has shut them down. The Pucketts' need is obvious: Andrea’s 74-year-old mother, Jane, needs to downsize, following the death of her husband a few...
Prefab Tiny Home Builder HomeEc’s Culture and Philosophy
Late Apple founder Steve Jobs used to say he wanted people to “think different.” That wasn’t a grammatical mistake. Jobs was different. Walter Isaacson’s book, Steve Jobs, painted Jobs as a man obsessed with realizing his visions. Jobs' visions were crystal clear. His standards were unforgiving. None of his pursuits followed anyone or any group. The physical...
How a 100-Year-Old SCOTUS Case Precipitated the 2025 Housing Crisis
As we mentioned in a previous blog entry, high labor and material prices, combined with a shortage of housing supply, etc., to fuel the U.S. housing crisis. One thing we haven’t mentioned yet: How a 100-year-old Supreme Court decision effectively zoned 75% of the country’s residential land into single-family home lots. And that some communities are starting to claw...
What Sets HomeEc’s Luxury Tiny Homes Apart
In this HomeEc blog installment, we discuss the differences between HomeEc structures and other options for tiny homes. One obvious difference between HomeEc and one alternative – review shown here – is that they won’t fall down if you stumble –into them. Click here to read more.
Prefab ADUs: Levittown’s Lesson for a Housing Crisis
More than 70 years ago, builders such as the Levitts mass produced smaller homes to meet the needs of soldiers returning from war and their families. In 2025, Dallas-based HomeEc is meeting a 4 million American housing shortfall by building more affordable, luxury compact housing and home additions using advanced, durable, highly efficient, and easily assembled building materials.