The Friend Compound Field Guide
livenearfriends.com · 133 words · saved by 2 readers
California’s new housing laws make multi-home living on a single lot achievable—explore real Bay Area sites reimagined as friend and family compounds.
California passed a wave of housing laws — SB 9, SB 684, SB 1123 — that make it so you can now build multiple homes on a single residential lot in most Bay Area cities. That means a friend compound isn't a fantasy. It's a project you can pull off with good certainty on cost and timelines. To show what's possible, we found 18 properties that sold across the Bay Area in the last year and asked: what if a group of friends or family had bought this instead? Each case study is a project that could have been — a real lot, at its real sale price, with the compound we would have designed for it.…
saved by
related reading
- Live Near Friendslivenearfriends.com
- When Was the Last Time We Built a New City?—Asteriskasteriskmag.com
- The NIMBY problem - Works in Progress Magazineworksinprogress.co
- Better Living Through Group Chemistry—Asteriskasteriskmag.com
- The Neighborhood - The Neighborhoodneighborhoodsf.com
- Jason Bennjasonbenn.com
- Haight St Commonshaight-st-commons.org
- The Foothills Of Bay Area House Partyastralcodexten.com
- Party Wall Permissionpartywallpermission.netlify.app
- ‘End single-family zoning’ is bad political messaging | Brookingsbrookings.edu
- best of SF (tarlon's version)sfbestof.com
- How much money it takes to be 'rich' in the Bay Areasfchronicle.com