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Building a Bay Area granny flat still challenging

2019-01-18T15:07:25+00:00By YardPods|

SAN JOSE. Recent California reforms designed to make it easier to build granny flats — one fix to ease the housing crisis — have not gone far enough to overcome local bureaucracy and neighborhood opposition, housing advocates say. But supporters [...]

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Homeowners Build Backyard Structures in Berkeley to Sidestep Housing Crisis

2019-01-18T14:24:13+00:00By YardPods|

BERKELEY (KPIX 5) — The high cost of housing in the Bay Area is splitting families apart as young people find they can’t afford to live in their own hometowns. But some are finding that a solution is not far [...]

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Marin County Supervisors Support ADUs

2018-12-20T09:53:02+00:00By YardPods|Tags: Marin County|

Marin County supervisors took steps this week to encourage Marin residents to create accessory dwelling and junior accessory dwelling units. The board voted Tuesday to extend a financial incentive to create junior accessory dwelling units for another year. The existing [...]

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10 Space-Saving Interiors For Multifunctional Living

2018-09-19T16:54:03+00:00By YardPods|Tags: Interior Design|

Given the movement of inhabiting smaller, more modest homes, dedicated rooms and room-specific furniture are becoming more and more rare. In many cases around the world, living spaces have continued to become smaller, requiring their inhabitants to seek out space-saving [...]

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Burlingame Supporting ADUs

2018-09-19T16:54:03+00:00By YardPods|Tags: San Mateo|

Burlingame officials agreed to loosen accessory dwelling unit building regulations as a means of combating the local affordability crisis, despite the parking and property management concerns raised by some. The Burlingame City Council voted 3-2, with Mayor Michael Brownrigg and [...]

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ADU rental income can be used to qualify borrowers to purchase on HomeReady Loans.

2018-09-19T16:54:04+00:00By YardPods|

A HomeReady Mortgage is a Fannie Mae, first-time home buyer loan program, with minimum down payment requirements, and some very particular underwriting characteristics. When a borrower is purchasing a single-unit primary residence with a 3% minimum down payment and [...]

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Want to learn about Accessory Dwelling Units in Sunnyvale?

2018-09-19T16:54:04+00:00By YardPods|Tags: Sunnyvale|

Housing lessons Interested in accessory dwelling units? The Housing Trust of Silicon Valley is collecting names for homeowners interested in learning more about ADUs. They will convene a focus group this month to help develop loan program parameters and will [...]

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Jim Tibbs of HDR Remodeling discusses “FAQs about ADUs”

2018-09-19T16:54:04+00:00By YardPods|Tags: Berkeley|

The demand for housing in the metro Bay Area is far outpacing the supply, a phenomenon that is driving inflated real estate prices even higher. There are high-rise apartment buildings popping up all over San Francisco to meet the housing [...]

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If IKEA Designed an ADU, it would look like this:

2018-09-19T16:54:04+00:00By YardPods|

Minarc has thrown their hat into the ring with their answer to California’s housing crisis – the Plús Hús, which is Icelandic for “plus house”. State regulations on ADUs (Accessory Dwelling Units), or “Granny flats”, have been loosened, meaning tiny [...]

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Fair Housing Conference 2018, presented by Fair Housing Advocates of Northern California

2018-09-19T16:54:04+00:00By YardPods|Tags: ADU, Bay Area, Fair Housing|

Recent local stories underscore the necessity of the Fair Housing Act today... It has been 50 years since the passage of the federal Fair Housing Act. While discrimination today is usually more covert – often done with a smile and [...]

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ADU – Accessory Dwelling Units