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With prices rising quickly in Montreal, those in search of affordable homes are increasingly shopping for condos or fleeing for cheaper outlying suburbs. But there’s another way to shrink your housing costs: buy or build a tiny home.

By “tiny” I don’t just mean small. Many tiny homes are 500 square feet or less — sometimes a lot less. Aficionados of small-space living can find examples on websites like tinyhouselistings.com that are only 200 square feet. The small-footprint homes typically cost much less than a conventional property and are less expensive to heat and maintain.

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It may seem like a stretch if a 700-square-foot apartment seems cramped to you. Then again, even a 4,000-square-foot cottage in the ‘burbs can feel small if you cram it full of stuff.

For tiny home evangelist Kenton Zerbin, one of the big benefits of choosing to live in a tiny home is that it forces you to zero in on the things in your life that matter most to you. There is no room for nostalgic clutter, impulse purchases or unitasking kitchen tools.