Now the couple are waiting for Los Angeles to resolve the legal fight over what kind of second housing the city can allow. Garcetti wants to add 100,000 new housing units by 2021, with 15,000 of them affordable. In Seattle, more than half the city’s buildable land is reserved for single-family housing. San Francisco approved second units in 2014 in some neighborhoods, a change that’s created barely more than 100 new units of housing. In a city with 600,000 single-family homes, even a small fraction of homeowners building second units would help achieve that second goal.

Source: Washington Post August 08, 2016 00:33 UTC