ADUs, or accessory dwelling units, refer to secondary homes, houses or apartments that are located on the same property as a main home. Sometimes ADUs are also called in-law suites or guest houses.

ADUs are exceptionally flexible, and most owners find that their use for the unit evolves over the years’’, notes Dashevsky. The detached/attached quality in and of itself doesn’t define an ADU. Ryan ...

BOSTON — Starting Sunday, accessory dwelling units will be allowed by right in single-family zoning districts across most of Massachusetts, under a law Gov. Maura Healey signed in August. The law ...

Falls Church officials are nearing a decision on an ordinance that would make it easier to build accessory-dwelling units. A vote on the ordinance is expected in late March or April. At a Council ...