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TFW your ADUs start showing up on maps' satellite views. 🌎💚

Providing comfortable and accessible design in harmony with the ADU’s environment is what we strive for. #ADUs #AgingInPlace

Make it 24 to cap off a fascinating 2020 — ADUs are proving to be a crucial release valve for the pressures our neighborhoods are facing in these formidable times.

@ModernEmpathySF Hot damn! How does it feel?

Lucky Number 21 😊 🏡

#proudinvestor in founders reinventing how we make the places where we live

@PhilTing @CasitaCoalition The response has been tremendous, and cities have been supportive. But they need help to handle the spike in demand. Some of this can come from improved approval processes, which we’ve seen Covid accelerate in some ways. Still, we feel cities need additional funding and staff.

New Study: CA has potential to increase its affordable housing supply with 1.5 million new #ADUs. I keep pushing to make it easier for homeowners to add them b/c these property additions/backyard units help keep family close by or generate rental income. escholarship.org/uc/item/8gh2x0…

The shittiness of sprawl goes way beyond climate. It reaches so far as to create desolation in our own minds. It is a historical artifact, a structural absurdity that we are correcting. npr.org/2020/08/06/812…

Prodigious paperweight

Great news from the Senate! AB 69 by Asm @PhilTing, which establishes a loan funding program for ADUs, ✅passes✅, helping get housing out there and the economy going again! Let’s keep up the progress today! Contact your Assemblymember to support SB 1120! cayimby.org/advocacy-hub/

A sponsored bill, AB 3182, which prohibits HOAs from totally banning tenants, goes to the Governor! It’ll get more ADUs out there and give tenants a chance to live in opportunity neighborhoods. A major thank you to our champions, Asm @PhilTing and @SenGonzalez_33 (and staff!)

Encouraging to see Portland raise the bar for housing reform! #CasitaTuesday #ADU sightline.org/2020/08/11/on-…

Seattle Says Yes to the Best Rules in America for Backyard Cottages sightline.org/2019/07/01/sea…

ADUs are one of the very few new housing types that will get built in this part of the cycle. Thankfully they are useful for getting elderly relatives and college-aged kids out of congregate settings fast thanks to last year’s law AB68.

House-GAN: Relational Generative Adversarial Networks for Graph-constrained House Layout Generation, N. Nauata et al. (Simon Frasier U / Autodesk Research) arxiv.org/abs/2003.06988 h/t @jackclarkSF

Decentralized commercial real estate would be crazy. Put a network of individual VR rooms in backyards and garages. The office itself is then in the cloud, provided as a service, infinitely configurable. From location, location, location to connection, connection, connection?

My first blog for @Harvard_JCHS is up; check out some new survey research at the intersection of aging, accessibility, residential remodeling, and smart tech!

My latest in @Forbes I’ve been fascinated watching the NIMBY movement in CA and the government response. Here’s my take on why ADUs will be big in 2020. CA will lead the way. #afforablehousing #adu #technology