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U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-NH, got her first look inside Keith Howard's tiny house on Friday.

Howard, the executive director of Manchester's Liberty House, has been living inside a 160-square-foot cargo trailer on property in Raymond since last June as part of a test to see if it could serve as transitional housing for homeless veterans until they get back on their feet.

So far his experiment has worked, and Ayotte was impressed. [...]

The trailer is equipped with propane heat and a solar panel for electricity. It's insulated, has a bunk bed with storage space, a toilet, a ceiling fan, and a small kitchen.

"I could live here forever," said Howard, whose time will be up in June.

Chinese company WinSun Decoration Design Engineering has constructed a set of ten single story, 3D-printed homes which it produced in under 24 hours. The homes, printed in prefabricated panels which fit together on site, were created using WinSun's custom-built 3D printer which measures 10 meters by 6.6 meters, and took the company twelve years to develop.

Formed with a cement-based mixture containing construction waste and glass fiber, each of the houses cost just $5,000 to build.

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