1. Get tickets to the ADU Tour 2. Volunteer to work on the tour 3. Showcase your ADU on the tour We’re running an ADU Tour in Los Angeles and it’s going to be a blast! Learn more about ADUs and meet the homeowners, builders, and designers who built them. We’re aiming for 10+ ADUs in a couple clusters in different parts of Los Angeles. Get Tickets Tour 10+ Real ADUs in the Los Angeles-area You are curious about Accessory Dwelling Units: How much do ADUs really cost? How do you find the right designer? How do you find the right builder? How long does it take to plan, permit and build t ..read more

This is a list of every project on the ADU Tour. We’ll add detailed surveys filled out by the homeowners, builders and designers for each project. Here is a Google Map with all 17 locations. Here is a downloadable PDF with some of the key stats for each project. Quick links to the ADU project profiles 1 - 2118 Carlson Blvd, Richmond 2 - 5638 Columbia Ave, Richmond 3 - 1108-A Masonic Avenue , Albany 4 - 2215 Roosevelt Avenue, Berkeley 5 - 1752 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley 6 - 1225 Derby, Berkeley 7 - 2842 Fulton St, Berkeley 8 - 3020 Benvenue Unit #7, Berkeley 9 - 1634 Fairview Street, Berkeley 1 ..read more

The ADU Grant could be back from the dead (but there’s a catch) The funding has been approved to help homeowners build ADUs - 50 MILLION dollars worth State legislators and the governor just came to a budget deal that includes $50 million in ADU incentives through CalHFA. Well… technically the “state budget agreement leaves unchanged the $50 million allocation” — ah the beautiful poetry of Sacramento. “The 2023-24 State Budget agreement leaves unchanged the $50 million allocation to CalHFA for Accessory Dwelling Units in the 2022 Budget Act. Over the coming months CalHFA, in conjunction with ..read more

1. Get tickets to the ADU Tour 2. Volunteer to work on the tour 3. Showcase your ADU on the tour The First Annual East Bay ADU Tour is in Berkeley and Oakland this October, and it’s a great way for homeowners to learn about ADUs. Learn more about ADUs and meet the homeowners, builders, and designers who built them. 10+ open houses across Oakland, Berkeley & East Bay Get Tickets Tour 10+ Real ADUs in Oakland and Berkeley-area You are curious about Accessory Dwelling Units: How much do ADUs really cost? How do you find the right designer? How do you find the right builder? How long ..read more

This page is under construction while we piece together all the assets from the October 12th Panel. Here are the slide decks: Download Slides Full video will be posted here too once available Edited video highlights will be featured on the YouTube channel If you’re new here, please check out all the resources available to you and your clients Free resources 100+ YouTube videos Facebook group with over 18,000 homeowners Tiktok community over 50,000 strong Other opportunities If you want to develop an ADU yourself, consider joining our private community. If your agency wants to get seri ..read more

Video Block Double-click here to add a video by URL or embed code. Learn more California’s legislature passed 3 different bills related to ADUs in 2022 There are over a dozen rule changes in these cleanup bills! This article will cover some of the changes in AB 2221, AB 916, AB 561, and SB 897 including: 2 story ADUs will be popping up around the entire state new government-backed finance programs no more front setbacks for statewide exemption ADUs stricter 60 day limits on all permitting agencies over a dozen other rule changes that make California ADU law better than ever in 2023 ..read more

We spend a lot of energy helping people build Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) and other forms of small footprint housing, but ADUs are only one side of the housing shortage that we face in the United States. This is a series where we’ll share some of the stories from our volunteer housing advocacy, which goes way beyond ADUs and delves into the world of political corruption, bureaucracy gone wrong, and much much more. If you’re only here for ADU advice, you can skip this series. But if you want to see what makes us tick and the work that we’re doing beyond ADUs, this series is for you! The wh ..read more

There’s big news about the CalHFA ADU grant that offers up to $40,000 toward pre-construction costs to California homeowners. The $40K grant requires you to get a loan from one of CalHFA’s pre-approved lenders - and up until now the loans have been very limiting. Homeowners often found they had to refinance their mortgage and that they’d lose their record-low interest rates. Not good! The state has only had 18 grant reservations since January, despite the generosity of the grant! But there’s a new lending product from one of the pre-approved lenders that will allow homeowners to get the $40,00 ..read more

Get $40,000 to build an ADU (Accessory Dwelling Unit) in California via CalHFA The state of California has set aside millions of dollars for a CalHFA ADU grant program and it is making a lot of changes in 2022 that will allow more homeowners to access the grant, and get more money when they do. “California Comeback Plan funds new $100 million grant program for low- to moderate-income homeowners to build accessory dwelling units” I highly recommend you look at the CalHFA website - and keep an open mind about this grant. They’ve done a lot to improve it in the past 6 months, and things are mov ..read more

This is a short update about an incredible program the city of Napa offers to promote the permitting and completion of Junior Accessory Dwelling Units. It’s called the Junior Unit Initiative and allows homeowners to access below-market, forgivable financing of up to $50,000 to create junior units. Program details for the Junior Unit Initiative (en espanol aqui) Support this program by writing to the city of Napa Unfortunately, this program may or may not be funded in the future. Up until fiscal year 2020-2021, this program was funded through the City's General Fund. But the program lost its fu ..read more