A 2019 AARP study found that Additional Housing Units, or ADUs, were hundreds of dollars cheaper than their one bedroom counterparts in 7 cities across the city, and that they provided an alternative to nursing homes, allowing seniors to age in place. A pilot project designed to show the effectiveness of legalizing ADU’s in Chicago has still not led to repealing the ban on these units.
Reset finds out what the process of building an ADU is like and what’s getting in the way of expanding this housing option across the city.
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Alex Nitkin, government finance and accountability reporter with the Illinois Answers Project of the Better Government Association