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San Jose this week became the first city in California to make it legal for homeowners with backyard cottages to sell those properties separately as

REDWOOD CITY, CA – SEPTEMBER 5: Eric McInerney, left, and John Geary, right, co-founders of Abodu are photographed in front of a modular home on

Let’s get one thing straight: Accessory dwelling units (ADUs) are not tiny houses. ADUs, most of them illegal, have existed in North American cities since

The reasons a homeowner can dismiss building a backyard granny flat run the gamut — from complicated city permits to unexpected, exorbitant fees to neighborhood

They’re not just she-sheds or he-sheds or granny pods or tiny homes. The latest housing trend in the backyard is now front and center for

CAMPBELL, Calif., March 19, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Acton Construction, a residential building company operating in the Silicon Valley for 30 years, has launched Acton ADU, a