More low-income granny flats could be on their way to San Diego, after the City Council passed an amendment to incentivize their construction.
Shkolnik said ADUs can be built in half the time.
Plus, San Diego landowners who build a reduced-rent unit can also build a bonus granny flat that can be rented at market rates. The catch is that the rent restricted unit has to be rented at a reduced rate to moderate-income residents for 15 years, or after the latest amendment, rented for 10 years to low-income tenants.City Council President Sean Elo-Rivera led the charge on the amendment. He sees ADUs as a way to address the region's housing affordability issue.
“While we may not see families of four or five moving into these ADUs, what we will be doing is relieving some of the competitive pressure that those families were feeling by not having these other homes, these new homes, on the rental market,” Elo-Rivera said. The most recent amendment builds on Mayor Todd Gloria’s “Homes for All of Us” package which passed in February.
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