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Since they're very up front about referring to them as Accessory Dwelling units, the primary market is likely people who want to quickly put an ADU in place alo
by gwbrooks 5y ago
Since they're very up front about referring to them as Accessory Dwelling units, the primary market is likely people who want to quickly put an ADU in place alongside a traditional single-family home for extra living space or rental income.
About one-third of the cost of new multifamily development is typically tied up in zoning/permitting/planning processes. Against that backdrop, ADUs -- particularly if the city pre-approves designs, which seems like something this product would be ideal for -- are a growing part of housing inventory and housing affordability in many cities.
- chrisseaton 5y ago'Accessory Dwelling Unit' is the most depressing way to talk about a home I've ever heard.
- monkeynotes 5y agoWelcome accessory citizens to your new neighbourhood. A dystopia like this is not just on the horizon it's all but here already. "Middle class" is not meaningful any more. Working class has slipped into actual poverty and the middle class are now accessory to the wealth hoarders. Educated twenty-somethings don't have much of a future to look forward to. They can't even afford the land to put an Accessory Dwelling Unit on, they'll have to rent one from an existing home owner. They will be living on a salary that stalled in the 90s, dealing with ever rising food and environmental costs, and subsisting in a world where we have a perma-health watch reducing their freedom to socialize.
- mekkkkkk 5y agoWhat's a "perma-health watch", and how does it the reduce ability to socialize?
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- d883kd8 5y agoGuess
- monkeynotes 5y agoI assume you are living in a time where a perpetual pandemic is something you've considered as becoming a reality[1]. With Covid mutations pushing countries back into lockdown you must see where we are potentially heading. Young people have had their university experience revoked. So many people go to university partly for the education and partly for the social experience. Finding love, new life long friends, and getting an education is what university used to mean to people. This is no more and may never be again. We are living in a time where our old life is being disposed and we don't even know it. I feel like most people think this is just temporary, well it's been almost a year and a half and we are still here. Life won't go back to how it was, ever. Too many paradigms have changed, and we have band aids for Covid that are just about keeping our hopes up. This hope will wane and we'll be work ourselves through to the final stages of grief as we accept our new lives in semi-isolation. [1] https://www.ft.com/content/1c7266b1-1fad-458e-8585-12dc3164fdce https://www.ft.com/content/1c7266b1-1fad-458e-8585-12dc3164f... https://nationalpost.com/news/postpandemic/its-only-the-end-of-the-beginning-of-covid-19 https://nationalpost.com/news/postpandemic/its-only-the-end-... https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/13/moderna-ceo-says-the-world-will-have-to-live-with-the-coronavirus-forever.html https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/13/moderna-ceo-says-the-world-w... https://www.businessinsider.com/when-will-the-pandemic-end-depends-on-coronavirus-variants-vaccines-2021-2 https://www.businessinsider.com/when-will-the-pandemic-end-d...
- mekkkkkk 5y agoAll right. Yeah, I don't fully disagree. I just never saw the expression "perma-health watch" before, and was unable to parse it. English is not my native language.
- chrisseaton 5y ago'Permanent health-watch' is the way to read it.
- mekkkkkk 5y agoAh, that makes sense. I read it as "permanent-health watch". English compound words always confuses me. Thanks!
- thebean11 5y agoSeems like an intentional misunderstanding of the term to me. The building is an accessory to the house, not the person living in it..
- organsnyder 5y agoI don't see it that way at all. Perhaps I've been too immersed in this terminology (I built an ADU a couple of years ago), but it makes sense given typical property descriptions: it's a dwelling unit (i.e. a place where people live) that's secondary ("accessory") to the primary dwelling. Or is the depressing part the fact that it assumes single family residences?
- chrisseaton 5y ago'Dwelling' sounds deeply depressing to me - to 'dwell' somewhere sounds like to simply exist in a space rather than actually living and thriving there. To 'dwell' on a problem means to sit and think quietly. And 'unit' to me sounds cookie-cutter and impersonal. This is your unit, just like everyone else's. Sit in your assigned unit and dwell in silence, human. I guess 'dwelling' and 'unit' don't have all those connotations to you? Why not just say 'home'? Even 'Accessory Home'.
- nraf 5y agoIt's a legal/regulatory term so I guess the coldness is to be expected: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/accessory-dwelling-unit-adu.asp https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/accessory-dwelling-unit... Guess it comes down to your target audience. If you're market primarily consists of landlords looking to make rental income, ADU seems to fit the bill.
- CyberDildonics 5y agoI don’t know if you’re a non-native speaker, but there is actually a popular magazine called dwell - https://www.dwell.com/ https://www.dwell.com/
- orthecreedence 5y agoGreat for people who work in Human Resources.