To conform with the state’s new Affordable Homes Act that takes effect Feb. 2, city and town boards are modifying their local ...

The Lenox Planning Board has completed work on two local bylaws for voter approval to line up with a new state law aimed at ...

Montana’s expensive housing market poses particular challenges to senior citizens who live on a fixed income and need a space ...

The Draper City Council is rewriting their local rules to help address Utah’s housing and affordability crisis.

California homeowners are embracing tiny homes in their backyards. The movement has offered a blueprint for cities across the ...

The latest “solution” was to eliminate the R-1, single family-residential zone by mandating that local zoning ordinances be changed to allow so-called Accessory Dwelling Units (ADU ...

Although state-level laws are making it easier for homeowners to build accessory dwelling units, high impact and development ...

Colorado lawmakers passed a bill in the spring that eliminated some of the restrictions in Colorado's biggest cities against accessory dwelling units. The ADUs are living areas that can be built ...

Living with your parents on the same property but in a different home may seem like a dream but it could soon become a ...

The second floor would be connected only to the main part of the house. Accessory dwelling units sometimes take the form of additions to a house. Sometimes, they are a separate building ...

The tool has a clunky name: accessory dwelling unit. It's a small unit separate from or attached to your house. The concept isn't new. You may know it as an "in-law unit" or a "granny flat." ...