A 14-unit ADU project under construction at 3879 Boren Street in the Redwood Village community on Wednesday, July 9, 2025, in San Diego.© Nelvin C. Cepeda/The San Diego Union-Tribune/TNS ...

SAN DIEGO — Previously the site of a single-story, single-family home, the lot on Manchester Road in College Area has been converted by local real estate developer Atlas West Group into an ...

In College Area, the residential neighborhood anchored around San Diego State University, a newly built ADU may rent for a little more than $3,000. The “affordable” units are cheaper, but not ...

©2025 The San Diego Union-Tribune. Visit sandiegouniontribune.com. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC. A 10-unit accessory dwelling unit (ADU) bonus program project, consisting of five ...

In 2021, San Diego launched its ADU Bonus Program, which goes well beyond the state-level liberalization. It allows an additional two "bonus ADUs" to be built, provided that one is deed-restricted ...

The ordinance before you does not include a retroactive provision,’ a city lawyer told concerned council members.

In San Diego, the median apartment rent (roughly $2,700 a month, according to Zillow) is less than $400 over the maximum allowable rent for a state-designated affordable apartment in San Diego County.

San Diego's Bonus ADU Boom Since 2019, California state law has required cities to allow one ADU and one "junior ADU" (typically a small unit inside the primary home) per residentially zoned property.

Attendees tour an ADU complex during a Casita Coalition’s event, Build the Middle: A National Housing Convening, in San Diego on Nov. 4, 2023. Photo by Adriana Heldiz, CalMatters ...

A typical ADU bonus project application includes between four and seven additional units, according to data provided by San Diego’s Development Services Department. Projects with a dozen or more units ...

An ADU building in the Golden Hill neighborhood of San Diego on Nov. 2, 2023. (Photo by Adriana Heldiz, CalMatters) ...