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The housing shortage in Southern California, all of California, but particularly Southern California and the Bay Area, is acute.

I mean, it is as bad as it gets anywhere in the country.

So there have been all kinds of efforts to somehow ameliorate the situation.

One of them being, for example, that single-family zoning, in other words, you buy a single-family house on a lot,

and then your neighbor is another lot with a single-family home on it.

Well, the law now allows someone to buy a piece of land, a house, tear it down, and put up a multi-unit building,

which is really wonderful for the person next door who bought a single

single family residents thinking that it's going to stay that way. All right, but the law is

changing. Now there's another one. There are ADUs, accessory dwelling units, allowed by law now.

If someone owns a home and if there's room, not even there's room, they can do this added to the garage or change their garage up or add another floor and or build something out in the yard, an independent unit, that's now allowed by law.

It's an ADU.

And it has to beat certain criteria.

And they can be small.

I mean, it can be a studio, as long as they have some kind of a kitchen and they have a bathroom.

And, I mean, some of them are very small, but they work.

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