ADU-webinar-img — Beyond Zoning: Co-creating a Community Strategy for Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs)

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ADUs have the potential to be an important part of a multi-faceted strategy for increasing access to affordable rental housing and home ownership. Unfortunately, most cities have a complicated set of zoning policies, parking requirements, setback rules, and other barriers that make it illegal or difficult to add ADUs (or increase duplexes, triplexes, or other housing options).

Even if there is political will to allow more flexible housing options, most local governments and coalitions lack the resources, time, or expertise to make the change to a set of better policies that are integrated into a housing strategy that brings the most benefits with the fewest risks.

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Coming Soon: Local Housing Policy Grants

The recent omnibus spending bill allocated $85 million to HUD for establishing a new competitive grant program to provide funding for local governments and housing coalitions to do planning for policy and system changes. The details and terminology for this grant program are still being worked on, but money should become available late in 2023. Now is the time to get your coalition ready to win you’re your region’s share of these dollars. This webinar will give you some of the latest information on what is sometimes called CGBG Pro-Housing, Local Housing Policy Grants, or “communities grants to identify and remove barriers to affordable housing production and preservation.”

It takes more than Zoning Changes

Many cities and counties are seeing that ADUs have the potential of expanding the housing options in their communities, but they also face opposition based on a variety of fears. Too often, after a contentious political brawl, zoning changes are made to allow ADUs, far fewer ADUs get built than the proponents are hoping for. Furthermore, there may be enough problems that the opponents can claim their opposition was justified.

What's generally lacking is a multi-faceted strategy to create the types of ADUs that bring the most benefit to neighborhoods and cities and that minimize the risks. Modifying the zoning (and possibly parking) is only one of many parts of a well-crafted strategy.

Learn how to Co-create and fund a successful strategy

This webinar will share about InsightFormation's Community Strategy Engagement Accelerator for 2023 (CSEA-23) and how participants in CSEA-23 can be in a cohort of communities working on details of a housing strategy to create an ADU ecosystem that results in the types of ADUs that bring the most benefit to neighborhoods and people needing housing that is relatively affordable.

During the Housing Solution Summits for 2020 and 2021, InsightFormation had over 100 leading innovators and practitioners share high-impact strategies to address different elements of the housing crisis. This page has details about the preview webinar for the Housing Solution Summit’s Deep Dive Day on ADUs.

The CSEA-23 program will help local coalitions create a customized local strategy map along with supporting details to begin implementing a highly effective and economical strategy. This 12-month program combines eLearning with interactive workshops, customized coaching, peer-engagement, and the leveraging of the excellent content from the Housing Solution Summit. Having a coalition work together on the strategy will enhance their application for the forthcoming HUD funding.

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