News + Updates from Napa Sonoma ADU

Thanks to generous support from Napa Valley Community Foundation and Community Foundation Sonoma County among others, our nonprofit has been able to provide hundreds of accessory dwelling unit consults free of charge during our two-year pilot stage to all homeowners, regardless of income.

Consultations scheduled after August 31 will require a $150 payment from the homeowner prior to scheduling. The ADU feasibility consults have a total value of $350, and the Foundations will continue to subsidize the balance for all homeowners as an incentive.

Join us in downtown Santa Rosa to tour model prefab ADUs and meet with ADU vendors and professionals to answer YOUR questions!

Join us next Tuesday, June 28 @ 6:00 pm for a FREE WEBINAR featuring two local homeowners who recently completed their ADUs.

Your home is likely your largest financial investment. But you can double down on that investment by building an ADU that can generate a passive income stream while also creating a home for a friend, family member, or member of our local workforce.

If there’s one thing we know about here at the Napa Sonoma ADU Center, it’s the skyrocketing cost to keep a roof over your head in Napa and Sonoma Counties. With the cost of living seeming to increase every day, many local homeowners are anxiously wondering how on earth they will be able to afford to stay in our community as they age on a fixed income.

It’s been a busy and exciting year so far here at the Napa Sonoma ADU Center, between our work with all of the many homeowners across Napa and Sonoma Counties seeking to build accessory dwelling units, plus collaboration with our local government agencies focused on improving ADU permitting processes. We’ve been taking it one tiny nail at a time, and so far – thanks to all of you – we are going strong!

For those of you who follow accessory dwelling unit news, you may have noticed that ADUs are everywhere these days – in fact, even the White House is spreading the ADU love! You can check out a recording here of a recent event hosted by the White House where national experts discussed how ADUs can help us build crucial housing for our friends, family, workforce and neighbors.

We’re officially a few weeks into the New Year, and if you’re anything like me you may already be feeling like you missed the boat on this year’s resolutions. I’m here to tell you that if one of your resolutions was to build an accessory dwelling unit – whether as retirement planning, building a passive income stream, or creating a home for a family member – it is not too late, and the Napa Sonoma ADU Center is here to help.

2021 brought its share of tribulations to our community, and yet each day we hear from new homeowners like you who are ready to invest in building an accessory dwelling unit that will provide a roof over the head of a friend, family member, or neighbor in need of a home.

A lot can be said about the past year and a half, and in this year’s season of gratitude I am choosing to focus on how this unique and challenging period of time has catalyzed us to reimagine our communities -- and how we live -- in a promising way.