Developers have touted a variety of solutions to ease the housing shortage, but opposition is right

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around the corner

Architect Rex Hohlbein has a $75,000 idea to ease Seattle’s $11 billion affordable housing problem — and it may be sitting in your backyard.

In 2017, Hohlbein and his daughter, Jenn LaFreniere, launched the Block Project, a nonprofit that builds small cottages — or detached accessory dwelling units (DADUs) — in the backyards of homeowners willing to donate some of their personal space to help others. The 125-square-foot dwellings cost about $75,000 to develop, which is less than half the price of a typical DADU that runs about $180,000. By comparison, it costs about $330,000 per unit and several years to develop permanent supportive housing.

But so far, only 15 units have been developed.

The main stumbling block is that for every resident placed in one of the backyard units, adequate social care must be provided. While Hohlbein was able to recruit developers and contractors to donate time to develop the cottages, finding social care support is more challenging.

https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2022/09/04/affordable-housing-plans-meet-resistance.html

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1. Who is responsible for paying the taxes on it ?

Homeowner? Resident?