California's 'by-right' ADU laws include multifamily properties, creating opportunities for nonprofit and for-profit developers. Join us for updates on this ADU success story and learn what's next for this sector.
Join us on Friday March 29th at 11:00am PST for an update on the important topic of unpermitted or informal ADUs and efforts to make the process of legalization easier and less costly. Our panel will cover:
The current process for legalizing an unpermitted unit under state law
How a safety-first legalization process can help preserve existing homes
Designing an amnesty program that addresses common barriers for homeowners
AB 2533 (Carrillo)—a bill Casita Coalition is supporting to improve current ADU amnesty provisions
Sponsored by the City of Piedmont.
Panelists include:
Katherine Peoples, Founder, HPP Cares, Casita Coalition Board VP
Jennifer Duffy, President, Hello Housing, creator of HelloADU
Rafafel Perez, Casita Coalition Chair
Jonathan Pacheco Bell, 4Leaf
Jocelyn Drake, Community Development & Infrastructure, County of Santa Cruz
Casita Coalition’s 2024 webinar series, “Building the Middle”, kicks off on Friday January 19th at 11:00a PST with “Implementing AB 1033: Lessons from Oregon and Texas on ADU Condos”. Join us to learn about the CA state law now in effect that allows ADUs to be sold separately as condos. Creating an entirely new category of homes for purchase for California homebuyers is a huge deal! We’re thrilled to have leveraged the success of ADUs in California into an opportunity that adds even more value to these infill homes. Our panel of legal and finance experts will walk us through the main points of this very exciting development in the ADU revolution. Highlights will include:
How to encourage your city or county to opt in to this new allowance (a necessary step!)
Overview of what’s possible and what’s required under state law
Case studies of ADU condo conversions in Texas and Portland OR–how they’re helping
Financing your ADU condo project
Presenters and panelists:
Jay Drake—Partner, Reuben, Junius & Rose
Julie Alexander, Texas ADU Condo Attorney
Julee Felsman, Guaranteed Rate, Mortgage Lender, Portland, Oregon
Linda Rios, consultant to Local Government Committee, California Assembly
John Kevlin, Partner, Reuben, Junius & Rose
Rafael Perez, Casita Coalition Board Chair
For this special edition of our webinar series, we're pleased to invite Nicholas J. Marantz from the UC Irvine School of Social Ecology, one of the authors of a recent report from the NYU Furman Center.
Casita Coalition welcomes Shannon Guzman of AARP's Public Policy Institute and David Morley of the American Planning Association to share highlights from their recent paper "Expanding ADU Development and Occupancy: Solutions for Removing Local Barriers to ADU Construction".
Casita Coalition hosts a conversation with ADU leaders, pioneers and innovators from Portland, OR, Vancouver BC, California, Seattle WA, and Montana to open the playbook on how they achieved major ADU and middle housing reforms.
With rising construction and permitting costs, finding scalable solutions to lowering costs is absolutely critical to broader, more equitable ADU production.
Casita Coalition board member Louis Mirante is back with an update on 2023 changes to ADU law in California and what these mean for ADU practitioners.
ADU production has leaped ahead of established systems in lending and real estate. In this webinar, we’ll look at what’s needed for them to catch up.
