Gainesville Housing Authority breaks ground on new single-family home with two ADUs
December 18, 2024
Press release from Gainesville Housing Authority
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Today, in collaboration with the Gainesville Housing Authority (GHA), the Gainesville Housing Development Management Corporation (GHDMC), a non-profit instrumentality of GHA, broke ground on a new single-family home with an attached accessory dwelling unit (ADU) and a detached accessory unit. Construction of the new units is expected to be complete in May 2025.
The homes are located at 306 NE 25th Street.
Affordable housing remains a top priority for the Gainesville community, and with the addition of a new home as well as two new accessory dwelling units, GHDMC and GHA are excited to add three new affordable housing units to our community.
O boy now a “single family” can house friends-with-benefits on their own lot! Wots not to like?
And GRU is paying for it.
Who’s gonna own the units after they are built or are they giving them away for free? I want a free duplex where I can make extra income from the accessory unit…
And how much is all of this going to cost?
Another money pit that will dragged down into a slum soon enough. Some people just can’t have nice things.
Housing becomes more affordable as the supply increases — from more people fleeing said areas. The County just recently said there’s enough supply of gov’t-defined “affordable housing” — but does it distinguish between rented or mortgaged?
We need more owner-occupied, affordable housing for single adults, not “couples” with delinquent offspring from different fathers, ruining neighborhoods. There’s already TOO MUCH of the latter.
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Nice job! Good to see something happening with ADUs.
A few points about the press-release version touting the city’s ill-begotten ADU ordinance of 2020 and GHA.
GHA demolished the house that was there, so the net gain is two small rental-only units, at a cost of demolition + new construction.
More than 60% of houses in Gainesville were built before 1980 and the existing housing stock is an asset that needs to be preserved (Shimberg Center 2019). Saying GHA housing is 45-50 years old is not a reason to demolish units, but some at the city approve of demolition by neglect anyway.
The city and GHA have demolished many apartments, displacing hundreds of tenants with low incomes, and replaced them with units for people with more income than half the households in the area. There’s no shortage of rentals for that income level, and Gainesville has a fairly high vacancy rate plus unused multifamily zoning to last decades to come. Policies like this are based on theory rather than real-world needs assessment and cost-benefit analysis.
Unlike duplexes, ADUs can’t be sold separately without legal maneuvering. No homeownership is required. The uncertain eventual ROI on ADUs puts them out of reach of most homeowners even if they want to be landlords. Cost analyses show that the time, money, permitting, and all is better spent on, say, 20-unit apartment complexes.
The city agreed to pay an architect a Lot of money for off-the-shelf ADU plans to benefit those who can afford to build them. There’s more to that story too, but I’ll stop here. Thank you, Jennifer, for keeping this public forum open and for all your reporting and hard work.
How many much it cost and how do you apply for one affordable housing unit? Kindly text this # 3522845271 for any reply .