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Why Divorced Older Women Are Turning to Tiny Home Villages - Business ...
Minitopia's largest site is in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Samira Kafala for BI 2026-04-23T16:24:34.291Z Single older women are turning to tiny home villages after getting divorced. One US village said roughly a third of its residents are older divorced women. There's a major financial reason this group is "tremendously overrepresented," said one expert. Margot Hollander got divorced at 62. Among the many decisions she faced in 2023 as she navigated life after marriage was the practical question of where she would live. "After the divorce, I had to settle somewhere," Margot Hollander said, sitting at the small dining table in her modern tiny home, her miniature dog at her feet.At the time, she was living in Eindhoven. It would have been a long wait for social housing. As a retired dance teacher in her 60s with no steady income, she had little chance of securing a mortgage and struggled to compete on the private rental market with high-earning couples. Left with about 145,000 euros ($170,407) from the sale of her marital home, Hollander, now 64, knew a house in the city was out of her budget. Are tiny homes worth it? Here are the pros and cons. "Your choice is limited," Hollander told Business Insider. Then, while browsing online, Hollander came across Minitopia, a tiny home village in her hometown of Eindhoven, in the south of the Netherlands. A prebuilt tiny house was listed for sale. She bought it in January 2024 in cash for about 143,000 euros, marking a new phase in her post-divorce life. There were a considerable number of offers on the property, she said, but "I was the lucky one." Margot Hollander, 64, lives in a tiny home with her dog. Samira Kafala for BI Tiny home villages are attracting divorced womenThe Minitopia Foundation works with local governments to turn derelict land into tiny house communities. More than 150 plots are spread across five sites in the southern Netherlands.Of the nearly 2,000 people on Minitopia's waiting list, across all five sites, one key demographic stands out, Rolf van Boxmeer, its cofounder, told Business Insider."A big part of it is divorced people," van Boxmeer said, estimating that around 30% of those on the waiting list were single women, many of them older and divorced."We've attracted a lot of these people," he added. "They need a home, fast, that they like. They are a bit older and don't usually have waiting-list priority on social housing." Minitopia in Eindhoven, where Hollander lives, is the lar...
Older divorced women priced out of housing are finding a lifeline in ...
Minitopia’s largest site is in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. “After the divorce, I had to settle somewhere,” Margot Hollander said, sitting at the small dining table in her modern tiny home, her miniature dog at her feet. At the time, she was living in Eindhoven. It would have been a long wait for social housing. As a retired dance teacher in her 60s with no steady income, she had little chance of securing a mortgage and struggled to compete on the private rental market with high-earning couples. Left with about 145,000 euros ($170,407) from the sale of her marital home, Hollander, now 64, knew a house in the city was out of her budget. “Your choice is limited,” Hollander told Business Insider. Business Insider’s Joshua Nelken-Zitser spent several nights in Minitopia, a tiny home village in the Netherlands. This story is part of his series exploring how living in the villages has affected residents’ careers, lives, and finances. Then, while browsing online, Hollander came across Minitopia, a tiny home village in her hometown of Eindhoven, in the south of the Netherlands. A prebuilt tiny house was listed for sale. She bought it in January 2024 in cash for about 143,000 euros, marking a new phase in her post-divorce life. There were a considerable number of offers on the property, she said, but “I was the lucky one.” Margot Hollander, 64, lives in a tiny home with her dog. The Minitopia Foundation works with local governments to turn derelict land into tiny house communities. More than 150 plots are spread across five sites in the southern Netherlands. “A big part of it is divorced people,” van Boxmeer said, estimating that around 30% of those on the waiting list were single women, many of them older and divorced. “We’ve attracted a lot of these people,” he added. “They need a home, fast, that they like. They are a bit older and don’t usually have waiting-list priority on social housing.” Minitopia in Eindhoven, where Hollander lives, is the largest of the foundation’s sites, with room for 100 tiny houses. Like Hollander, some buy their tiny homes secondhand, while others apply for a plot to build from scratch for as little as €5,000, though more typically closer to €75,000. Residents then pay ground rent to the foundation, usually a few hundred euros a month, depending on the size of their plot. It’s an affordable way onto the property ladder, and the model has proved popular. Divorced women often buy tiny homes with cash Sidra Gifford, 54, who...
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Why Visiting a Tiny Home Village Made Me Rethink Homeownership ...
In mid-February, I found myself on a reporting trip in North Brabant, in the south of the Netherlands, visiting a cluster of tiny-home villages run by the Minitopia Foundation.
