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American Craftsman house with detached secondary suite. A secondary suite (also known as a accessory dwelling unit (ADU), in-law apartment, granny flat, granny annex or garden suite [1]) is a self-contained apartment, cottage, or small residential unit that is located on a property that has a separate main, single-family home, duplex, or other residential unit.
This model of an accessory dwelling unit, on display at the State House on Jan. 25, won a Rhode Island School of Design "granny flat" competition sponsored by the AARP.
Dual-key property, in fact, can be viewed as the modern day version of a "granny flat". [12] These apartments offering both internal household flexibility (when household needs change, the two units can be lived in as one [ 11 ] ) [ 9 ] and a way of paying off mortgages (one unit can be rented out separately to help pay off a mortgage [ 11 ...
2-Flat, 3-Flat, and 4-Flat houses: houses or buildings with 2, 3, or 4 flats, respectively, especially when each of the flats takes up one entire floor of the house. There is a common stairway in the front and often in the back providing access to all the flats. 2-Flats and sometimes 3-flats are common in certain older neighborhoods.
A total of 10 teams of RISD students designed accessory dwelling units, also known as in-law apartments or granny flats, as the push to make them legal across the state ramps up again.
In New Zealand, the terms bedsit and granny flat are used interchangeably. [citation needed] A bedsit can also be compared to a Soviet communal apartment, in which a common kitchen, bathroom, toilet, and telephone are shared by several families, each of which lives in a single room opening up onto a common hallway. [citation needed]
On 1 October 2018, the Licensing of Houses in Multiple Occupation (Prescribed Description) (England) Order 2018 [8] amended the large HMO definition in the 2004 Act by abolishing the "3 or more floors" requirement. Nevertheless, purpose-built flats in a block of three or more such flats, were excluded from the amended classification.
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