I'm an Earth Advantage Accredited "Sustainable Homes Professional" and "Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) Specialist" who is a ver strong proponent of TRUE "Granny Flats" and "ACCESSORY Dwelling Units."Unfortunately, this author has drunk the Kool-Aid and misserved her readers by her HUGE omission in not pointing out the blatant swindle that rental investors are using to exploit the appealing character of (nominally) single-family neighborhoods.The pivotal swindle is not requiring an owner to occupy one of the units.In Portland, Ore., for example, multiple so-called attached or detached "ADUs" can be added to a modest-sized lot that has a small, detached house that would previously have been in the supply available to middle-income households to purchase.But, by effectively doing "stealth upzoning," Portland has now increased the market value of the land so that investment funds inevitably outbid prospective home buyers.This is ripping apart older, close-in neighborhoods and displacing lower- and middle-income home buyers and renters.AARP (which is already an insurance scam) has duped and betrayed its members by supporting this scam.

I'm an Earth Advantage Accredited "Sustainable Homes Professional" and "Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) Specialist" who is a ver strong proponent of TRUE "Granny Flats" and "ACCESSORY Dwelling Units."Unfortunately, this author has drunk the Kool-Aid and misserved her readers by her HUGE omission in not pointing out the blatant swindle that rental investors are using to exploit the appealing character of (nominally) single-family neighborhoods.The pivotal swindle is not requiring an owner to occupy one of the units.In Portland, Ore., for example, multiple so-called attached or detached "ADUs" can be added to a modest-sized lot that has a small, detached house that would previously have been in the supply available to middle-income households to purchase.But, by effectively doing "stealth upzoning," Portland has now increased the market value of the land so that investment funds inevitably outbid prospective home buyers.This is ripping apart older, close-in neighborhoods and displacing lower- and middle-income home buyers and renters.AARP (which is already an insurance scam) has duped and betrayed its members by supporting this scam.

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