While the rest of the nation is largely united in its effort to build up housing inventory to ease pricing, California has ...

Isabel Janken, her son Glen by her side, slowly ascends the stairs to her family’s newly built accessory dwelling unit, or ADU, in Westwood. Every step is a struggle, but Janken perseveres ...

Abodu, based in Redwood City, offers pre-manufactured ADUs that start ... In 2023, one out of every five homes built in the state was an ADU, according to recently released state data.

Through ADU builder Abodu, I had a 500-square foot one-bedroom ADU built in my backyard ... But all of the pre-approved plans that I had looked at were kind of boring. They looked like boxes.

According to Villa, the total cost of the ADU was $353,745; the unit itself was $163,500 of that total. The home was built in a factory that Villa partners with in San Jacinto, a two-hour drive ...

He decided instead of rebuilding the garage, he wanted an ADU, and through researching that process, he came across the city's pre-approved ... for more housing to be built within dense areas ...

City Hall is taking steps to implement a program to help homeowners with modest incomes and limited home equity to build an ...

By the start of next year, Californians looking to add accessory dwelling units to their backyards will be able to shop around for preapproved plans on their local city's website as part of a ...

After learning about Napa County's Affordable ADU program, which offers a forgivable loan for homeowners who rent their units to low-income tenants, they went all in. Todd and his wife built a ...

In 2023, Todd Kuchta built a 480-square-foot accessory dwelling unit in his backyard. He built the ADU for his son Jacob, who has autism and can not live entirely on his own. Kuchta said it was more ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Blanca Barragan, a 42-year-old electrician, who completed construction of an accessory dwelling unit she built in her front yard and moved ...