随着住房再生产成本的增加，消费者对现有住房进行了密集利用。住房存量的转换已重新成为供应来源。本书介绍了附属公寓，并评估了其作为满足当地和全国住房需求的新兴资源的潜力。尽管他们的住房需求完全是国家的附属品，但他们也不能满足国家的需求。其中一些是环境问题，例如与周围建筑的设计和外观不符的物理变化，而其他问题是文化和意识形态问题。单户住宅中的附属公寓偏离了美国文化中盛行的住房、家庭和社区形象。它象征着独户住宅使用方式和居住类型的变化。这些变化与住宅分区类别的传统含义相冲突。Martin Gellen在全文中评估并回答了以下问题：我们如何与附属公寓一起生活？控制他们的人数？确保他们的健康–保持社区标准？他专注于改造的物理规划问题，并研究了它们提出的分区问题。这包括对专属单户区的密度和占用控制目的的现实评估。作者提供了新的密度和居住率调节方法，允许更灵活地使用单户住房，以满足更多样化人口的住房需求。无论是在老龄化的郊区还是新城区，附属公寓都是当前的挑战。这本书为不断变化的房地产行业的流行趋势提供了一种清醒的方法。
Accessory Apartments in Single-Family Housing
As the reproduction cost of housing has increased, consumers have made intensive use of existing dwellings. Conversions of the housing stock have regained prominence as a source of supply. This book introduces the accessory apartment and assesses its potential as an emerging resource for meeting local and national housing needs. Although accessory apartments help meet some of the nation’s housing needs, they are not entirely without problems. Some of these are environmental problems, such as physical alterations that are out of character with the design and appearance of surrounding structures, while other problems are cultural and ideological. The accessory apartment in a single-family house deviates from the image of housing, family, and neighborhood that prevails in American culture. It symbolizes a change in the way the single-family house is used and the kinds of people who live in it. These changes clash with the traditional meanings attached to the categories of residential zoning. Martin Gellen evaluates and answers the following questions throughout the text: How do we live with accessory apartments? Control their number? Ensure their soundness?–and maintain neighborhood standards? He focuses on the physical planning problems of conversions and examines the zoning issues they raise. This includes a realistic appraisal of the purposes of density and occupancy controls in exclusive single-family districts. The author provides new methods for regulation of density and occupancy which permit more flexible use of single-family housing to meet the housing needs of a more diverse population. Whether in an aging suburb or new tract, the accessory apartment is a current challenge. This book provides a clear headed approach toward a popular trend in the ever changing housing industry.
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