Event: Eliminating Barriers to Build Backyard Cottages and Mother-In-Law Housing

Next Friday Sightline housing researcher Margaret Morales will speak on a panel at the Build Small Live Large Summit in Portland. Her presentation will focus on eliminating policy barriers to building backyard cottages and mother-in-law units in Cascadia. Municipal regulations restrict the development of these housing types, ultimately impeding a housing solution to both affordability and growth management issues. Margaret will join other housing experts on a panel to discuss land use regulations, fees, and permitting standards that restrict accessory dwelling unit (ADU) development, and share viable solutions to knock down these barriers. Panelists include:

• Margaret Morales, Sightline Institute
• Madeline Kovacs, Portland for Everyone
• Eli Spevak, Orange Splot, LLC
• Harriet Tregoning, Former Office of Community Planning and Development, U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development

Event: Knocking Down Walls

• What: Build Small Live Large Summit
• Where: Portland, Oregon
• When: November 3, 2017, 1:30 pm
• Tickets: Register here. 

Check out our research on ADUs and tiny homes below:

• Why Vancouver Trounces the Rest of Cascadia in Building ADUs. And how Portland and Seattle could play some serious catch-up.
• ADUs and Don’ts. The gauntlet of rules that in-law and cottage units must run.
• Legalizing the Tiny House. Bringing rogue housing in from the cold.
• Seattle’s Single-Family Neighborhoods Already Include Thousands of Duplexes. New map reveals nearly 10,000 ‘plex and ADU homes in the city’s most coveted, contentious, and opportunity-rich areas.
• Returning Seattle to Its Roots in Diverse Housing Types. Multi-family historic housing exceptions provide homes in opportunity-rich neighborhoods for more than 12,000 Seattleites today.
• Not in YOUR Backyard: Cottages, In-law Apartments, and the Predatory Delay of HALA’s ADU Rules. Abuse of a 1971 environmental law is displacing hundreds of low-income families from Seattle this year.

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