2016 Foundation Permits 
Dwell
NOVEMBER 2, 2023
When California began relaxing regulations surrounding accessory dwelling units (ADUs) in 2016 , James Connolly wanted to help lower the cost of living in the San Francisco Bay Area by adding housing stock. So in 2019 he founded Villa, a prefab builder that could handle everything from fabrication, to permitting, to installation.
Dwell
JUNE 28, 2023
There are a lot of bad actors on this front, but two you’ve likely heard of are tech billionaires Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, who, in 2016, built a wall around their Kauai estate they purchased at the dismay of locals , greatly diminishing access to a stretch of pristine coastline once easily enjoyed by the public.
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Architecture Here and There
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
Experimental houses built by Brad Pitt’s Make It Right foundation. Pitt formed a foundation called Make It Right to build 150 affordable, ecologically sustainable houses. The foundation could not create groovy new houses with shape-bending features and then sell them for a mere $150,000. Flicker/Commons).
Santa Cruz Architect
DECEMBER 14, 2022
In California, prior to 2016, legally converting or building an ADU was met with a host of local regulations to the point that an ADU didn’t make financial sense. Just compare the cost of permitting an existing structure or building a new ADU/JADU with the amount of anticipated rental income over the years.
Dwell
AUGUST 2, 2023
Rendering courtesy of Lehrer Architects and Kadre Architects The city partnered with smaller architecture firms to design plans for ADUs —emphasizing good design and affordability—that would be pre-approved for permitting ease. You can’t just download it, pay the fee, and get a permit.
Dwell
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
He and his family live in Los Angeles and love spending time in Palm Springs, so in 2016, he began looking for fixer-uppers in that area. "I I found a house and renovated the interiors," he says. "I I enjoyed that so much that the next year I decided I wanted to do another one—but this time I was fascinated by the desert landscape." $350
Architecture Here and There
JULY 20, 2022
Here, responding to a email thread on classical architecture and racism in which her essay is invoked, is my post from 2016 about Sibyl Moholy-Nagy and “Hitler’s Revenge.” No other profession has permitted such an indignity to be perpetrated against it. Hitler’s revenge indeed!
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