Casita Coalition invites you to join us for a conversation highlighting our Build the Middle Playbook, created in partnership with Zillow.
Join us for the November edition of our Building the Middle webinar series! Since Casita-sponsored AB 1033 became law, we’ve been sharing resources on how cities and counties can implement the new allowance for ADUs to be sold separately as condos. For this webinar, presenters will share an overview of how ADU condo conversions work and how cities can opt in. Presenters include:
Martina Davis, Planning staff from City of San Jose, the first jurisdiction to opt in to AB 1033. She’ll share the steps to opt-in, elements of their ordinance update, and review the city’s new public-facing application materials
Real estate attorney Jay Drake from Reuben, Junius & Rose, who worked with Casita Coalition on our AB 1033 guidance memo—he’ll share updates to the resource and walk us through basic condo info
Casita Coalition board chair Rafael Perez will give an overview of financing considerations for various ADU condo development scenarios
Lowering the land cost for new homes is an important strategy in building the middle. ADUs achieve this by using underutilized backyards. Subdividing parcels into smaller lots is another way to keep land costs low. Recent CA legislation, including SB 9 and SB 684, focused on simplifying the process, shortening timelines and making it more predictable.
Join us on Friday July 26th at 11:00a for Building the Middle: Land Division Options for a conversation with builders and designers using urban lot splits and small lot subdivisions for infill development.
New Resource! John Kevlin from Reuben, Junius & Rose will share highlights from our new co-authored implementation guide for cities and counties to create streamlined small lot subdivision ordinances under SB 684
Nolan Gray from CA YIMBY will provide an update on current bills seeking to fine-tune SB 684
BuildCASA is one of the most active urban-lot split companies in CA. Paul Steidl will show examples of their projects
Muhammad Alameldin shares highlights from the recent UC Berkeley Terner Center report on SB 9’s first year
Jill Cropp of Studio Cropp in Portland OR shows examples of cottage clusters and townhomes built using Oregon’s new middle housing rules
Derek Leavitt will share the basics of the current subdivision process in Los Angeles
Produced with the generous sponsorship of CBIA, AARP of California, Klingbeil Capital Management and Reuben, Junius & Rose.
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. We’ll also get an update on SB 1211 (Skinner), a Casita-sponsored bill to improve flexibility for multifamily ADUs.
What do multifamily ADU projects look like on the ground? We’ll hear from presenters who are building them on multifamily properties as conversions and as new detached ADUs.
Julia Weis, Klingbeil Capital Management
Sean Roberts, Villa Homes
Ian Dunn, OpenScope Studios
Andrew Slocum, Green Development Company
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.
