We envision a future where we all find secure, affordable homes in neighborhoods we choose.

Great neighborhoods include great transit, a community where family and friends are neighbors. Complete walkable neighborhoods to do errands and our jobs. As we move through our lives, we find smaller and larger homes as our needs change, while staying in communities we love. We imagine a day where this is true for everyone: owners and renters, and people of all ethnicities and income levels.

We organize to
1. Address our Housing Crisis
2. Create Complete Neighborhoods
3. Slow Climate Change

131,793

Number of Needed Rental Units Today

41,000

The goal for new homes by 2030 in Montgomery County 

45%

Lower income households paying more than 50% of income for housing 

Our VIsion 

WE BELIEVE

Many communities in our state face a severe housing crisis, with home prices and rents unaffordable by families and households of middle and moderate incomes.
 

1. The State is falling far short of meeting current and future housing demand, with serious potential consequences for the state’s economy and the well-being of our residents, particularly lower-income and middle-income earners. 
   
    
2. The State can play an important role in reducing the barriers that prevent homeowners from building accessory dwelling units. 
   
    
3. There are many benefits associated with the creation of legal accessory dwelling units on lots in single-family zones and other zoning districts. These benefits include: 
   
   
   1. Increasing the supply of a more affordable and diverse type of housing not requiring government subsidies; 
      
       
   2. Helping older homeowners, single parents, young home buyers, and renters seeking a wider range of homes, prices, rents and locations; 
      
       
   3. Providing opportunities to reduce segregation of people by race, ethnicity, and income that resulted from decades of exclusionary zoning; 
      
       
   4. Providing homeowners with extra income to help meet rising ownership costs; 
      
       
   5. Creating a convenient living arrangement that allows family members or other persons to provide care and support for someone in a semi-independent living arrangement while remaining in his or her community;
      
       
   6. Increased security, home care and companionship for older or other 
      homeowners; 
      
       
   7. Reducing burdens on taxpayers while enhancing the local property tax base by providing a cost-effective means of accommodating development without the cost of building, operating and maintaining new infrastructure;
      
       
   8.  Promoting more compact urban and suburban growth, which reduces the loss of farm and forest lands, as well as natural areas and resources, while limiting increases in pollution that contributes to climate instability; and
       
   9. Enhancing job opportunities for individuals by providing housing nearer to employment centers and public transportation. (2) Accessory dwelling units are, therefore, an essential component of the state’s housing supply.

 Accessory dwelling units are, therefore, an essential component of the state’s housing supply.

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