Tiny House Webinar Series



Are you ready to create financial security by taking housing into your own hands? If you're looking to begin your tiny house journey in 2021, join us for a series of webinars to learn about tiny house building, placement, and lifestyle!


We are Lee Pera and Jewel Pearson, and we have inspired thousands of people across the country through our workshops and presentations. Together we have designed and built our own tiny houses, founded an urban tiny house community, navigated multiple tiny house parking spots, worked with jurisdictions on zoning for tiny houses, and helped our clients find locations for their houses and manage their builds.


We know from personal experiences that building and living tiny is not as simple as it’s often portrayed on TV and social media. Our goal is to create a tiny house movement that challenges structural inequalities in the current housing system to create a tiny house movement that is accessible to all. We look forward to meeting you in a webinar soon!



WEBINAR SCHEDULE - WINTER 2021
(all participants receive the webinar recording, presentation materials & resources after the webinar)



Tiny House 101: The Basics



Saturday, Feb. 13
1pm - 3pm EST / $75





Overview of the decisions that go into tiny house building, placement, and lifestyle.

In this workshop we will cover:

  • Tiny House Types: How to choose what type best meets your needs
  • Zoning and Building Codes: Where you can place tiny houses and codes to follow for building
  • DIY or Buy? Pros and cons of building yourself, hiring a builder, or buying a tiny house.
  • Tiny House Living: systems for tiny houses and lifestyle considerations.

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Tiny House 201: Design/Build



Saturday, Feb. 27
1pm - 3pm EST / $75





Learn the design/build process for your tiny house.

In this workshop we will cover:

  • Design: Decisions, tools, and common designs for tiny houses
  • Build: Building code, steps in building a tiny house, and materials selection
  • Project management: project planning tools for your build and financial considerations
  • Systems: Overview of systems for tiny houses and your options

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Tiny House Placement



Thursday, Feb. 25
7pm - 8:30pm EST / $75





How to find a place for your tiny house. This workshop will cover:

  • Regulations for tiny houses: Understand zoning, how it applies to where you can place a tiny house, and the jurisdictions that are tiny-house friendly.
  • How to find a place for your tiny house: types of sites for tiny houses and the pros and cons, best methods for finding a place for a tiny house, and tools/resources for your search.
  • Setting up your tiny house: How to prep the property for your house, sample agreements, and tips for being a good neighbor.

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Tiny House Webinar Bundle



Feb. 13, 25 & 27
$200 ($25 discount)





Get a Discount by signing up for all three webinars:

  • Tiny House 101: The Basics
  • Tiny House 201: Design/Build
  • Tiny House Placement

With these 3 webinars you'll be fully prepared to start your tiny house journey!


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ABOUT THE PRESENTERS



Lee Pera



Kotierra



In 2012, Lee built her own house on wheels and started the nation's first tiny house community in Washington DC to model how tiny houses could be used as urban infill. Her tiny house work has been featured in numerous media outlets, including NPR, Washington Post, Atlantic Cities, Dwell, Inhabitat, Al Jazeera, Architectural Record, and CNN.


At the heart of her personal philosophy, Lee believes that a sense of home and belonging are essential to developing healthy communities and individuals.


With a background in community development, education, and geography, Lee helps citizens and communities to envision and enact housing and land stewardship models that are driven and owned by them.


She has mapped land tenure and natural resources throughout Latin America with citizen groups, managed geospatial projects for the US government, and educated cities and citizens on tiny house development and zoning. She is currently building a data platform for zoning related to tiny houses.



Jewel Pearson



Ms Bohemian Soul



After downsizing her homes and lifestyle over the course of 10 years, Jewel designed and built a beautiful 360 square foot tiny house in May of 2015 that she calls home. Located in Charlotte, North Carolina, her urban and very chic tiny home has twice been a big hit on HGTV, has been featured in numerous print mediums both nationally and internationally and her most recent “I Live in a Tiny House” docuseries feature on Apartment Therapy’s TheNewHomesmiths won an award for its very real discussion and exploration into racism, housing inequality and redefining community.


A project manager and consultant by day, Jewel’s also a tiny house advocate and community leader sharing her experiences, offering consulting services and teaching workshops throughout the country to encourage and assist others in achieving their tiny living dreams. Her home represents a desire that many have to reduce their ecological footprint and focus more on practices of less and sustainability. Jewel is also the founder of Tiny House Trailblazers; a duo collaboration of powerful and uniquely talented black women who together are strong voices and a force for representation within the tiny house movement.



Tiny House Trailblazers



Tiny House Trailblazers is the collaboration of Jewel Pearson, Ms. Bohemian Soul and Dominique Moody, artist and builder of the NOMAD. Tiny House Trailblazers was established to ensure our voices were heard and our faces seen within the tiny house community.


Instead of continuing to wait for invitations to other tables we’re focused on building our own, gathering the people who aren’t always represented in the larger tiny house movement and continuing our work with people who respect and value inclusion. The tiny house movement presents an opportunity to redefine housing and to build real community, however real community can’t be built if everyone’s not represented.


We’re trailblazers, advocates and educators, sharing our experiences and expertise. We’re working to change and challenge the status quo of housing and community, on efforts to have tiny houses recognized as viable solutions and options for affordable housing and to address housing inequity and we’re holding our space and ensuring representation in the process. We’re trailblazers in the tiny house movement and now we’re five plus years in. We’re advocates and educators within the tiny house movement, sharing our experiences and expertise. We’re working to build real community within the tiny house movement and we’re holding our space and ensuring representation.



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Kotierra



Kotierra



Kotierra



MS Bohemian Soul



Ms Bohemian Soul



Tiny House Trailblazers



Tiny House Trailblazers