It has been a little over a month since the International Code Council (ICC) Public Comment Hearings in Hartford, and I wanted to take a moment to update everyone who signed this petition.

First, thank you.

More than 14,000 people signed in support of creating a legitimate building code pathway for relocatable tiny houses. While signatures do not determine code votes, they helped demonstrate that this issue affects real people in communities across the country. Every signature strengthened our ability to show that this is not a niche issue, it is part of a larger conversation about housing choice, affordability, and regulatory clarity.

Although our proposal did not advance through the code process this cycle, the effort has continued to gain momentum since.

The Hartford hearing brought together builders, engineers, code officials, designers, homeowners, advocates, and housing professionals from across the country. More importantly, it opened new conversations with organizations and stakeholders that have historically opposed relocatable tiny house recognition.

Since the hearing, discussions have continued about future pathways for recognizing relocatable tiny houses within residential codes. I was recently invited to present to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Standards and Codes Subcommittee—an opportunity that would have been difficult to imagine even six months ago. If you would like to see what I presented you can view the presentation, HERE. While there are still differing opinions about the best path forward, more people are engaging with this issue than ever before.

That matters.

Local jurisdictions continue to encounter relocatable tiny houses without clear regulatory pathways. Builders and homeowners continue to ask the same question: how can these homes be safely and appropriately recognized within existing residential frameworks?

Those questions have not gone away, and neither has the need for solutions. And so we persist. 

For now, I am leaving this petition open and will continue the conversations, continue developing educational resources, and continue looking for practical pathways forward. Progress rarely happens in a straight line, but this effort has brought the conversation further than it has ever gone before.

Thank you for being part of that progress.

~ Macy Miller