Pre-designed plans set you up for success.

The proven designs we’ve developed, save time, money, and enable beautiful spaces that will last for years to come.

Advantages

Our Pre-Designed ADU plans offer several advantages. By choosing a pre-designed option, you save money, expedite the permitting process and allow you to begin construction sooner.

 

Exterior Styling Guide

We have four well chose exterior styles as templates to help you match your ADU perfectly with your existing home style. Ranch, Modern, Beach Bungalow

Interior Style & Planning Guides

All our plans come with a helpful interior finishes and appliance planning worksheet to help you and your builder coordinate whether you're DIYing it yourself or handing off the process entirely.

The Process Guide

We've built a guide on how to go from these plans to completion and avoid many ADU building pitfalls we've learned from many years of designing and building ADUs.

 

Typical ADU Development Steps

  • 1. Make Immediate Impact

    You can make impact now. We've started construction on our first 19 homes, with 300+ in permitting.

  • A New Model

    You can invest in scaling a solution: our model can grow the missing part of the housing industry.

  • Increase Housing Equity

    You can increase housing equity: many of our projects are creating housing owned by Black churches.

  • Join Notable Partners

    Our funders include Dignity Health, Facebook, Community Foundations in Santa Cruz & Silicon Valley.

  • Recieve A Steady Return

    You'll earn a steady return: we have a 4-year track record of making all interest payments.

  • Unlock Local Land

    Thousands of non-profits own land & want to develop affordable housing; we unlock that potential.

  • Help Meet The Need

    There isn't close to enough government funding to meet the growing affordable housing need.

  • A Trusted Team

    Our team has decades of experience permitting, designing, operating housing & social services.

 

WHAT IS INCLUDED IN THIS PLAN SET

 
“New teachers can no longer afford housing in 40% of California’s school districts”
— Quote Source
 

Our country needs a housing industry that can meet demand while also being equitable and putting people first.

We've seen our community being torn apart. Just in Santa Cruz, we have:

  • Half the families with young children than we had 20 years ago.

  • Less economic and racial diversity.

  • More homeless—even those who have and keep employment.

  • Teachers commuting for hours because they can’t afford to live in their school districts. 

Every one of these problems trace back in part to the same thing—Our Housing Crisis. Working on any of these problems directly without also solving the housing crisis is not enough.

More About The Housing Crisis⟶

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