Backyard.Homes is offering a range of introductory price points for a finished home depending upon model that start as low as $149,500, plus site development costs.

Maren McMillan hugs her mother, Patsy Spitta, in the backyard of Patsy’s home in Altadena. Several California laws have been passed allowing homes to be built in backyards.

Builders of moderately priced homes are adding outdoor spaces. In Gallatin at the Retreat at Fairvue, where prices begin at $252,000, cottage homes built by Goodall Homes come with private courtyards.

The U.S. needs to build millions of homes—6.8 million units, by one estimate—to deal with the housing shortage that’s helping push house prices and rents higher; tiny backyard houses can ...

14 states have legalized ADU construction, mostly over the last several years. In some places, it's led to a boom in tiny backyard homes.

For six months, I fully embraced tiny living in my own backyard, while renting out rooms in my main home to college students for a total of about $2,725 a month. It lowered my expenses and gave me ...