"So I started from scratch and built myself a small house," he told me. He built the 100-square-foot home on wheels and parked it on a friend's farm outside of Iowa City. Eventually, he moved back ...

These new guidelines come two years after the city council lowered the maximum home height on small lots from 35 feet to 29 feet and expanded the required distance from homes to side property lines.

Floodplain buyouts can reduce the financial toll of future disasters. But some small towns losing property and people are now saying no.

Iowa's capital city should refocus a portion of its $64 million-plus annual housing budget to address roughly 45,000 single-family homes that tend to be old, small and often neglected, under a ...

Movers from Aylsworth House Movers of Wadena loaded the small old house at 909 16th Avenue SE near Ninth Street onto a flatbed truck and hauled it about five blocks on city streets to an empty lot ...

Initially, Mordecai, a 39-year-old nonprofit executive, was “less enthused” about the idea of living so far outside the city. But the pair was drawn to the property’s stately brick façade ...

Old houses also have “few, small and strangely located bathrooms,” he said, “tiny closed-off kitchens, small or no closets, poor insulation, drafty windows, poor light, plus they break down ...

Small homes called 'albatross' on Des Moines, consultant pitches city redevelop 280 blocks Areas such as East 14th Street and Euclid Avenue, Southwest Ninth Street and Watrous Avenue, University ...