These sleek, prefab buildings can add an office or spare bedroom to your backyard from $33,000 — take a look

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The exterior of a tiny home.
The exterior of a small ADU Aux Box.

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I saw how a no-frills garage got turned into a gorgeous apartment for cheap, and it made me realize how empty offices could easily get converted into housing, too

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The site of a garage-turned-apartment unit in Santa Clara, California.

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I toured an apartment built in a factory, and I'm convinced that these high-tech homes are the future of city living

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A model unit from Cloud Apartments, a startup that plans to construct rental buildings out of stacked rectangular modules that are made in factories.

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I built an ADU in my backyard that brings in $3,000 a month. Now I urge other California homeowners to do the same.

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Joyce Higashi in her ADU.

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These snazzy homes are built in a factory, installed in backyards, and cost as little as $105,000 — take a look inside

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The Kantor family sits outside their completed ADU in their LA backyard.

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A tiny-home village that can house over 30 homeless people is the latest project from a California prefab company that quickly builds homes in factories and trucks them to their destinations

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The interior of Shelter 3 by ConnectHomes
The interior of Connect Homes' Shelter 3.

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Thousands of people who ordered tiny homes from hot startup Boxabl have paid cash but are still waiting

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Boxabl co-founders Paolo and Galiano Tiramani stand in front of a Boxabl truck on a partly cloudy day
Boxabl co-founders Paolo and Galiano Tiramani with one of their startup's tiny homes on the bed of a truck at a SpaceX site.

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