AS DEMAND TO AGE IN PLACE SOARS, SENIOR CITIZENS ARE SEEKING MORE WALKABILITY AND DIVERSE HOUSING TYPES

A TREND THAT ALSO SERVES PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES OF ALL AGES 

Jeff Speck, leader of Brookline, MA-based Speck Dempsey, emphasized the value of an ADU with an anecdote about an older woman who built a house with an ADU in Kentlands in Gaithersburg, MD.

“She lived in the granny flat (ADU), rented out the house and covered her mortgage with the house rent -- thus living for free,” Speck said.