My Home Plus One ADU

Building an ADU generates revenue for homeowners and helps provide the small homes our region needs. Our region has a serious shortage of small, year-round rentals. There are lots of people with great jobs that need a place to rent. And there are lots of homeowners who have a property that is larger than they need or want. That’s why Housing Assistance is launching the My Home Plus One ADU program to provide technical assistance, resources, and financial incentives to homeowners who build an ADU and rent it out year-round.

Housing Assistance created the program to address obstacles to ADU creation identified in our research of recent updated town bylaws intended to make ADU construction easier, successful marketing of ADU opportunities in some cases, and challenges to encouraging homeowners to invest in an ADU and become a landlord for the first time. Our findings are summarized in the report, Accessory Dwelling Units: Unlocking the Potential of Cape Cod’s Single-Family Home Inventory.

If you are interested in building an ADU, send us an email and include:

1. Your name,
2. the town you live in,
3. the type of ADU you are hoping to develop (detached, basement, garage, or other) and,
4. best email and phone number to contact you.

We will contact you as soon as more information and next steps are available.

ADUs can be freestanding residences on the same lot as a single-family home, or ADUs can be developed within existing buildings, such as in the case of a basement, a bonus room or the space above a garage.

ADUs are an important tool that will enable us to quickly add year-round rental housing.

Surveys reveal that greater awareness about ADUs is needed.

First Home
Rent from ADU can make ownership affordable

Young Children at Home
An ADU can house a childcare provider

Empty Nest
Rent can support college or travel expense, tenant can keep watch on property

Aging Parents
Can move into the ADU, or it can house a care provider