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An accessory dwelling unit, usually called an ADU, is an additional housing unit on a single-family residential lot. The term accessory dwelling unit is an industrial-sounding name, but it’s the most commonly used in residential housing.
The fact that the structure is a secondary housing unit is what defines an ADU. When learning about concepts, it’s natural to want to know what that concept looks like in the flesh. We want to visually embed the design concept in our brains as a tangible object that we can mentally reference.
However, ADUs vary in their physical form quite a bit, so allow me to broaden that mental model by exposing you to the range of common ADU types, in order to better understand what they are. Call our office today for more information. Five Star Roofing can price-match competing offers. Our state-licensed team also keeps warranties for any occasion.
While their structural forms vary, ADUs share some common traits and face common design and development challenges. These similarities include:
Well, for starters, most households in the United States are now 1-2 person households. Yet, most of our legacy housing stock, and even our new residential housing stock, is designed for families of 4 or 5 people. That may have made sense 70 years ago. But things have changed. The average household size dropped from 3.67 in 1940 to 2.53 in 2016 (US Census data).
Homes with 3-4 bedrooms no longer match the demographic realities of the United States:
There are a lot of reasons that municipalities may want to spur ADU development. Here are a few:
Economic
ADUs provide flexible dwelling options in central city neighborhoods, utilize existing governmental infrastructure (e.g. roads, sewers, schools), and reduce the demand for expanding infrastructure in far-lying reaches of a developed metropolitan area.
Environmental
ADUs provide housing with a relatively small environmental footprint. New, detached ADUs provide rental housing that is 44% smaller per capita than standard, new single-family rental units. And new ADUs overall provide housing that is 33% smaller per capita than standard, new single-family units.
Social
ADUs provide more affordable housing options in residential neighborhoods without dramatically changing the character of a neighborhood as much as other new housing forms may.
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