Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
[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 [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
As we saw in yesterday’s post, Accessory Dwelling Units (commonly known as ‘in-law apartments’) have a symbiotic relationship to their host property (usually a single-family home) in that they take advantage of the installed trunk infrastructure – streets, utilities – as well as the site infrastructure – the driveway, garage, lot [...]
“When in-law apartments are outlawed, only outlaw in-laws will have apartments.”
– Bumper sticker from the National Relatives Accommodation Association (NRAA)
Despite all the emphasis we bestow on the visible and regulated forms of affordable housing – LIHTC, HUD Section 8, even inclusionary zoning – there are more forms of invisible affordable housing than are dreamt of [...]
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