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The homes might be tiny, but the dreams are huge when it comes to Windsor’s homegrown advocates, including designers and builders, pushing to kickstart a new local industry aimed at providing a more modest, yet much more affordable, avenue to home ownership. With average local home sale prices last month surpassing the $700,000 mark, owning a…

Sometimes known as granny flats or coach houses, they're structures — either existing or purpose-built — at the rear of some backyards in which people can legally live. The city's housing committee meets Tuesday to launch consultations aimed at a new bylaw that would legalize and regulate the units. The push for garden suites comes at…

The creator of one of the city’s first tiny houses held an open house Friday to show the end result to the many people interested in her project. Sarah Cipkar broke ground on the 430-square-foot, one-bedroom cottage on Aug. 10 and it’s almost completed after three months. Originally budgeted at $115,000 to $120,000, she came fairly…

Public school board trustee Sarah Cipkar broke ground Wednesday on a cute little cottage in her backyard — not a playhouse for her daughter Harvest, but a tiny house that adds badly needed housing to the downtown core. “I’m really excited, I wanted to start this in April,” she said of the project she’s been planning…