What it's like to live in 325 square feet
by Richard Marosi, Los Angeles Times
Nov 30, 2017
3 minutes
TIJUANA, Mexico - As developers erected enormous housing projects across Mexico, the homes they built were getting smaller and smaller.
Today, there are about 1 million houses so tiny that they have come to be known by their reviled nickname: mini-casas.
A mini-casa squeezes a bedroom, bathroom, living room and kitchen into about 325 square feet, a space smaller than a typical American two-car garage.
Bunched side-by-side 50 units at a stretch, they look like dilapidated dollhouses.
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