The Milwaukee-area is in need of a lot more affordable housing. There have been many proposed solutions to the shortfall – including rezoning initiatives and incentivizing the building of new, affordable apartments. Now, some communities are focusing on another solution: so-called granny flats, or accessory dwelling units (ADU).
ADUs are separate homes built on a single lot, that can help increase density in a neighborhood. Journalist Adam Rogan wrote about these initiatives in this month’s Milwaukee Magazine.
“Milwaukee and a lot of suburbs, especially Wauwatosa, want to encourage this kind of development because it can bring in more population density, which increases the tax base without building apartments – which tend to bring a lot of NIMBYs who want to oppose it,” he says…