Read the full article by Ken Magri at Sacramento News & Review
The City of Sacramento has attempted to come up with an imaginative plan to meet its housing needs through its new Small Developer Incubator Program.
The program seeks to recruit local contractors, architects, finance professionals and others involved in housing who can work to build more living units faster, but on a smaller scale than large housing projects.
The incubator program will concentrate on building what is called missing-middle housing, which consists of backyard cottages (also called accessory dwelling units, or ADUs), duplexes, fourplexes, work/live spaces and multi-family units that can fit into smaller single-family home sized lots.
These buildings are too small and infrequent for conventional developers to build. Their profits come from building large scale projects. But small developers can be more resourceful and adaptable, benefiting from relationships they build and their understanding of a particular locale.