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New York City will pay homeowners up to $395,000 to build an extra dwelling in their garage or basement to help ease the housing shortage
15 lucky New York City homeowners will get government funding to help boost housing density by addi…
Eliza Relman
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A startup wants to turn your garage into a tiny home and give you $500 a month to help quell a crushing housing shortage. Here's what the homes look like.
The company was founded by Steven Dietz, formerly of Upfront Ventures, which backed the likes of Pe…
Katie Canales
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A California couple built a $500,000 ADU in their parents' backyard when they couldn't afford to buy a traditional house
Ali and Aislyn Benjamin's live in an ADU in his parents' yard. The couple asked wedding guests to g…
Alcynna Lloyd
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We built a $250,000 ADU for our adult son in our backyard. He gets the support he needs, and it's cheaper than finding an apartment.
Todd Kuchta and his wife built an ADU in their backyard to offer their adult son, who has autism, m…
Alcynna Lloyd
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America needs more weird homes
From quirky designs to odd floor plans, these outside-the-box homebuilding ideas could bring down r…
Ned Resnikoff
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I downsized to an ADU I built in my Sacramento yard. I pay only $520 toward my mortgage and am saving up for my next home.
Blanca Barragan moved into an ADU and rents out rooms in her home. It covers about $2,200 of her mo…
Alcynna Lloyd
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How a Montana retiree will save on spiking home insurance and taxes by living in a type of housing that's illegal in many places
Sylvia, a 71-year-old retiree in Montana, is taking advantage of city and state laws encouraging th…
Eliza Relman
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I turned my garage into an apartment I rent out. It helps me afford retirement and almost paid off my mortgage.
Retired educator Helen Boxwill said rental income from her ADU's three tenants over 20 years has he…
Alcynna Lloyd
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I made $20,000 in 5 months by renting out extra apartments in my Sacramento backyard
George Warren said that over the past five months, the rental income from his two ADUs has earned h…
Alcynna Lloyd
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New York will pay homeowners up to $125,000 to build an ADU in their backyard to help ease the nation's housing shortage
The state has already allocated $23.4 million, sent to various nonprofits and local governments, to…
Kelsey Neubauer
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America's plague of tyrannical homeowners
Florida is trying to crush the local dictators ruining homeowners' lives. The rest of America shoul…
Ned Resnikoff
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Housing inventory is so tight that more shut-out home buyers could end up building backyard homes, researchers say
As mortgage rates hover near a 20-year-high, there's growing interest in building units on the lots…
Jennifer Sor
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The city of Malibu is taking a family to the state supreme court to stop them from building a tiny home in their backyard for their elderly parent
Jason and Liz Riddick have been trying to build a small home in their backyard in West Malibu for L…
Eliza Relman
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They left NYC for Bali with their teenagers. 7 years later, their sons are fleeing the nest, and they're selling the villa for $1.89 million.
Seven years ago, they sold their teenagers the idea of a yearlong sabbatical in Bali as a break fro…
Amanda Goh
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Home Depot is selling a sleek modern tiny home frame with a spiral staircase for under $50K — but it'll cost far more to get it move-in ready
Home Depot is selling a kit for a 540 square-feet accessory dwelling unit for your backyard. But wi…
Grace Mayer
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I moved into an ADU in my California backyard. It allowed me to leave my 9-to-5 and I even save $5,000 a month.
Julie Fornasero moved into an ADU and rents her home for $3,900. It covers her property taxes, mort…
Alcynna Lloyd
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The vast majority of Americans support housing policies that are widely illegal
Americans want policymakers to do something about out of control housing prices and rents.
Eliza Relman
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A San Francisco builder converted a former garage into 3 tiny homes
The former six-car garage in the city's Mission District now consists of three roughly 600-square-f…
Lauren Steussy
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A Gen Xer got $30,000 to build an extra apartment in her backyard. Renting it out makes paying her bills 'financially possible.'
Marni Leiken, one of many people getting paid to build ADUs, said the rental income helps defray th…
Alcynna Lloyd
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I got a $20,000 grant to build a tiny home on my property. It was expensive to start, but I feel secure in my old age now.
Jean Lowell, 75, needed an accessible home for herself, and an affordable place for her daughter in…