We Just Got the Green Light. Tiny Homes Are Coming to Las Vegas.

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Last Wednesday, Las Vegas City Council voted unanimously to approve our project — Sunridge on Searles. Fifty tiny homes. 2.25 acres. A vacant lot turned into a real affordable housing community.

Three years in the making. A lot of obstacles. Worth every one of them.

Sunridge on Searles is a $6 million development built using Boxabl materials. Boxabl is a Las Vegas–based manufacturer building factory-produced, foldable modular homes. Their CEO Paolo Tiramani put it simply: the company exists to solve the housing crisis through technology and scale. That’s exactly why we partnered with them.

Each unit is about 360 square feet and will rent for $1,000 a month — utilities included. The median asking rent in the Las Vegas metro right now is $1,423, still running 17.6% above pre-COVID levels. We’re coming in 30% below market. That’s the point.

The units go on a pad, on grade, no steps. Permanent. Foundation-set. Accessible — designed with seniors in mind from the start. No wheels. No ambiguity. This isn’t a glorified RV park. It’s housing.

Getting here wasn’t straightforward. Our property was zoned multifamily R3, and the existing codes didn’t include tiny homes. We had to work with the city to get those codes rewritten. That’s not a footnote — that’s a feather in our cap. Every future tiny-home project in Las Vegas now has a cleaner path because of the work we did on this one.

Here’s the context for why this matters: Nevada is short 78,000 rental units for extremely low-income households. The state pulled a C- on Realtor.com’s State-by-State Housing Report Card. City Councilwoman Olivia Diaz called housing one of her four priorities. Mayor Shelley Berkley is openly enthusiastic. The political alignment is real.

Fifty units doesn’t solve the crisis. We know that. It’s one piece of the puzzle — our piece. And if it starts a wave of similar development, which is exactly what Councilwoman Diaz said she’s hoping for, then Sunridge on Searles is more than a project. It’s a proof of concept.

Permits are next. Once approved, a Boxabl unit can be set up in about an hour. We’re targeting residents by late 2026 or early 2027.

This is what three years of grinding on zoning, design, and financing looks like. We’re proud of

About the Author

Daniel Kaufman is a real estate developer and investor, focused on affordable housing, workforce housing, and mixed-use development across the country. He is the founder of Kaufman & Company and a principal at Convivium Living, a real estate lending platform providing institutional-grade capital to residential developers. Daniel has spent years working in markets where the gap between housing supply and community need is wide — and where creative solutions, patient capital, and regulatory groundwork are the only way through. Sunridge on Searles is that work in action. Follow along at danielkaufman.info or on the blog at danielkaufmanrealestatedeveloper.blogspot.com.