Building a backyard cottage can be expensive: In the San Francisco Bay Area, for example, even a small accessory dwelling unit (ADU) might cost more than $200,000. And getting permits can take months.

In his last semester at college, in between studying labor law and environmental impact assessment, Alex Elderbroom took a class on something very different: how to build a tiny house. In the class, ...

Given the constant stream of tiny house content on the socials, including successful life stories from digital nomads, tutorials, and all types of motivational posts, you'd be excused if you weren't ...