Tiny-Home ‘Matchmakers’ Are Helping Connect Residents With Rural Landowners

Ron Murray knew he wanted to live in a tiny home, but there was a problem—where would he put it?The Canadian tiny home enthusiast was right to worry about that first. While tiny homes offer sustainability advantages and are a viable option for managing the housing affordability crisis, you can't just plunk one anywhere you want.Finding the right place to live tiny is one of the bigger issues for people deciding to downsize their lives, and the search is often complicated by local ordinances and municipal requirements for tiny homes.Luckily, Murray met an unofficial tiny home "matchmaker" through the company he was considering contracting to build his tiny home, who helped Murray find a piece of land to lease in Dunrobin, Ontario, about a mile away from the border of Quebec."We had to figure out where to put it before we purchased it," says Murray, who now owns and lives in a 650 square-foot tiny home with his wife on a tree-filled parcel of land that he has leased for five years. "We were fortunate to make the right connection quickly, but I know it is an issue for a lot of people to find the right property. "Fortunately, there are some savvy services stepping in to make finding th...