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The San Francisco Business Times covers New Avenue Homes

Posted: 2011 Aug 18

This San Francisco Business Times article covers how New Avenue is creating affordable housing with backyard cottages.
Get rental income from Accessory Dwelling Units

Posted: 2011 Aug 18

Bankrate.com interviews New Avenue in this article about seniors earning rental income with second units.

"...New Avenue Homes, based in Berkeley, Calif., offers a turnkey solution for rental ADUs, says founder Kevin Casey. The company takes care of all zoning and permitting, arranges financing, and gets the home designed and built with no upfront cost to the homeowner, servicing the debt with a portion of the rent.

"You just need to have a tenant lined up who can afford to pay the rent," he says."
San Jose Green Vision Clean Energy Showcase

Posted: 2011 Aug 05

Read the Jetson Green Article about New Avenue.
New Avenue at Greenbuild / Pacific Coast Builders Conference in San Francisco

Posted: 2011 Jun 30

Check out exhibit details at the PCBC Website.

View the full article for photos.
New Avenue Home Featured in San Jose's Green Vision Clean Energy Showcase

Posted: 2011 Jun 21

Learn more about the exhibit
New Avenue is #1 Ranked Company at 2011 Investors' Circle Conference

Posted: 2011 Jun 15

Link to website: http://www.investorscircle.net/
Could There Be a Boom of Backyard In-law Cottages?

Posted: 2011 Feb 23

By Michael Litchfield

In the nearly three years I spent researching and writing a book about accessory dwelling units—In-laws, Outlaws, and Granny Flats: Your guide to turning one house into two homes—I thought I had seen every variation of designing and building ADUs out there. But as I was putting the book to bed, I came upon a developer in Berkeley, Kevin Casey, with a new twist. Namely, Casey’s start-up offers homeowners a turn-key ADU package that includes private financing, design, permit approval and construction. What’s more, he seems to be making a go of it, with a first backyard cottage garnering a lot of praise, and six more units in the pipeline. Now he’s looking for builders in other regions to partner with.

More at FineHomebuilding:

http://www.finehomebuilding.com/item/15974/could-there-be-a-boom-of-backyard-in-law-cottages
CGIU Featured Commitments - Net Zero Homes

Posted: 2011 Jan 25

When Kevin Casey proposed the idea of constructing homes which emit no carbon dioxide to classmate Anu Sridharan, he received a skeptical glance. After learning about energy-efficient home models discussed in a Sustainable Communities course at the University of California, Berkeley, Kevin was inspired to try to actually build such a home, but he had no real knowledge or experience with home construction, let alone energy-efficient design. That’s where CGI U came in.
Berkeley zero net energy cottage deserves study

Posted: 2011 Jan 11

Karen Chapple's just-built second home looks exactly like what it is: a cottage that packs 450 square feet of living space into a traditional shell with a pitched roof, warm wooden walls and a shaded front porch.

Old news - except that it sits tucked behind a century-old bungalow on a quiet Berkeley block with neighbors close on either side, stealth infill that in its own discreet way deserves study by every city where the need for housing outstrips the supply of obvious land.

More on SFGate: http://articles.sfgate.com/2011-01-11/entertainment/27021991_1_affordable-housing-cottage-housing-crunch
Over in Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates attended a ribbon cutting ceremony...

Posted: 2011 Jan 07

Over in Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates attended a ribbon cutting ceremony for a 420-square foot cottage in the backyard of a home on Delaware Street. What's all the fuss about? One company thinks creating small, sustainable secondary units on private property is the alternative to creating unsustainable suburban sprawl. And Berkeley agrees. "We favor increasing the number of secondary units. It's the only goal we have added to the housing element of our general plan this year," says Debra Sanderson, Planning Manager at the City of Berkeley. The article is jam-packed with information about why small, secondary units should become all the rage in Berkeley, and has choice quotes like "I'm a New Yorker and I like density. When I look around Berkeley I think it would look nicer with more buildings."

More on Curbed SF: http://sf.curbed.com/archives/2011/01/07/tiny_houses.php