This article is a guide to Accessory Dwelling Units. Since California is in the middle of a housing crisis the state housing law has been adapting its zoning and housing regulations to make it easier for homeowners to build ADUs. ADUs help improve housing affordability and diversify a community’s housing stock.
What is an ADU?
An ADU is a small structure that shares a single-family lot with a larger primary house.Types of ADU
- Detached ADU: Detached ADUs are separated from the main house.
- examples include backyard bungalows and converted outbuildings
- Attached ADU: Attached ADUs are units attached to the main house.
- units can have a separate or shared entrance
- Garage Conversion: Converting an existing garage structure to an ADU
- use of an attached or detached garage
- Upper Floor ADU: Converting an existing floor into an ADU
- A type of junior ADU. Upper floor ADUs can be provided through an inside stairway in the main house or exterior stairs outside.
Some of the names ADU’s are called:
- Accessory dwelling unit
- Backyard home
- Backyard house
- Granny flat
- Junior accessory dwelling unit (JADU)
- In-law unit
- Tiny house
- 84% Provide a home for a loved one in need of care
- 83% provide housing for relatives of friends
- 64% feel safer by having someone living nearby
- 69% have a space for guests
- 67% increase the value of their home
- 60% create a place for a caregiver to stay
- 53% Earn extra income from renting to a tenant
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