2024-05-06T18:40:40-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150062794/winners-announced-for-la-county-s-yes-to-adu-design-competition Mackenzie Goldberg 2018-05-04T12:00:00-04:00 >2024-03-15T01:45:58-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/ft/ft3yfsmyupek2m09.gif" border="0" /><p>Hot-market cities grappling with a dearth of housing, like those along the coast of California, are increasingly looking at <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/677746/granny-flat" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">accessory dwelling units</a> (ADUs)&mdash;commonly known as "granny flats&mdash;to help abate the statewide shortage. In 2016, California passed three laws aimed at facilitating in-law unit production; following the legalizations, the city of <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/1322/los-angeles" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Los Angeles</a> received <a href="http://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/uploads/ADU_Update_Brief_December_2017_.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">1,980 applications</a> for secondary units in 2017 alone.&nbsp;</p> <p>The County has also launched a number of <a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/150024055/a-test-of-compassion-l-a-county-to-offer-residents-up-to-75-000-to-build-a-granny-flat-for-a-homeless-family-in-their-backyard" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">adjacent initiatives</a> with the goal of making sure that some of these new homes are affordable. One of such pilot programs comes through the LA County Board of Supervisors' Homeless Initiative and sets out to catalyze the community of architects, designers, planners and creative strategists to re-imagine the potential of ADUs as a housing typology that can work in conjunction with other strategies to help alleviate the County's housing pressure.</p> <p>Working with the Art Commission Civic Art Program, the first phase of <em><a href="http://bustler.net/competitions/5555/part-of-the-solution-yes-to-adu" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Part of th...</a></em></p>