All kinds of factors have led to an increase in multigenerational living arrangements across Northern California in recent years. The interest in main-level living has grown in the past decade or so.
Because of 2020’s sheltering in place, adult children moved back home either from college or from rentals they could no longer keep. In other households, the sandwich generation welcomed the older generation into their home for better safety and security.
Then in January of 2021, California’s Health and Safety Code required cities and counties to develop plans to incentivize and promote accessory dwelling units (ADUs) on homeowners’ private property at affordable rent for qualified tenants.
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