Even in tough economic times, ADUs create greater financial resiliency.

People worry about the economy today just like they did in the Great Depression and Great Recess

ion. Yet we can learn how families succeeded and thrived during hard times.

The most successful families leveraged home space so the entire family could move in comfortably.

Those homeowners with extra space created boarding houses, renting individual rooms and outbuildings to multiple boarders. Today we sometimes call that co-living spaces and ADUs.

I call it passive income.