Many households have a need for additional living space and, given the cost of buying a new home, often prefer to stay on their current property.  ADUs are an affordable option for turning a single family property into multi-generational housing to meet a household’s lifetime of housing needs. Aging homeowners may want to age in place and rent out their primary residence. Younger households may choose to form multigenerational households to ease caregiving responsibilities. Other households may need extra space for grown children to move home to start a career.

Not only do ADUs accommodate this range of uses, a single ADU may meet all of these needs in the course of its lifecycle.