As the Terner Center has previously documented, the cost of building housing in California has skyrocketed in recent years, with hard costs such as materials and labor as the biggest cost drivers.…
On Friday, August 26 at 11 am PT, the Terner Center for Housing Innovation, Center for Community Innovation, and Casita Coalition are co-hosting a webinar looking at the barriers to ADU construction…
Accessory dwelling units (ADUs) are an important and increasingly popular strategy for adding to the supply of housing in California, particularly by creating lower-cost units in single-family neighborhoods. Recent statewide legalization of…
The USC Lusk Center for Real Estate and the Terner Center hosted a webinar discussing Freddie Mac’s recent changes to make it easier for homeowners to finance the construction of an accessory…
Expanding the construction of accessory dwelling units (ADUs)—a secondary, often backyard home on a single-family lot—offers benefits to individual homeowners and has the potential to increase the supply of affordable homes and…
With housing prices out of reach for many, California is facing the need to find new ways to create housing affordable to middle-income households. While there are housing subsidy programs for low-income…
