Date: May 20th, 2009

Outlaw in-laws: Part 3, quiet amnesty

20 May, 2009 (10:11) | ADU, Amnesty, Configuration, Density, Innovations, Special needs housing, Tenure, US News | No comments

 
[Continued from yesterday's Part 2 and the previous Part 1.]
 
To legitimize a thing, give it a more respectable name.  In our modern era, we reinvented the flophouse or rooming house as the SRO (single-room occupancy), and the in-law apartment (or granny flat) as the Accessory Dwelling Unit:
 

In-law apartment, Connecticut suburb: note the connecting passage and apartment [...]