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The Duluth Housing and Redevelopment Authority hopes to help, but much depends on whether the home can meet rental codes.

Simply Tiny Development LLC, who built a tiny home in Duluth and acquired land to build additional homes, is reportedly filing for bankruptcy.

Simply Tiny Development LLC, who built a tiny home in Duluth and acquired land to build additional homes, is reportedly filing for bankruptcy.

Duluth's mayor acknowledged the small dwelling's "surprising price point" has caused a perhaps unsurprising stir.

Minneapolis and St. Paul each permitted accessory dwelling units a few years ago, but construction has since slowed.

From the editorial: "Nearly half of the city, 47%, is non-taxable parkland or greenspace. A better balance of public lands and taxable parcels could help create those larger tracts developers crave, which could help to expand Duluth's tax base and ease the tax burden on all of us."

Simply Tiny will bring clusters of small-footprint houses to market.

May 31—At 200 square feet, the home Sean Dixon plans to build in Duluth's Central Hillside this summer promises to be the smallest permanent residence built in the city in recent history. But Dixon, CEO of Simply Tiny Development, based in Colorado, plans to build 13 more of the compact rental units in Duluth, assuming the local market responds as positively as he expects it will. The small ...

Copy shortlink: DULUTH – Developers are planning more than a dozen tiny homes in Duluth, including an eight-unit park that is among the first and largest such developments in the state. The proposals, at sites around the city, are part of the Rebuild Duluth program in which the city gives away parcels of land to encourage creative housing solutions. "Im excited to see what the community interest is," said Jason Hale, senior housing developer for the city of Duluth. "If...