Napa family installs backyard ADU to help son achieve independence
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- A family in Napa used an Accessory Dwelling Unit -- ADU -- to help their developmentally disabled son gain his independence. John Ramos reports.
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Jacob is lucky of having parents that can help him
Their son collects SSI and doesn’t have to work for the rest of his life, that’s American dream 😴 came true
@@chuckxu5910 Have you ever lived on SSI? $62 per mo. & $124 for a couple.
My neighbor built ADU in his backyard for his elder mom who needs care. He is a good son.
This is better than living in an apartment. At least by the time he pays it off, it’s his to keep and can call it his own property. Good job Napa Valley. Your idea is practical and helpful for the young kids.
It's also great that he lives near his parents, in case any problems arise. And it's surely a comfort to them as well.
@@Frank-v8e1othe social security check is his. ( speaking as a disabled adult.) he seems to be high functioning. Many people with autism if high functioning enough can be an independent adult and their social security check will be in their name, if they are unable to care for themselves which isn’t the case for him as he’s sorta living independently THEN their parents or someone would be appointed as their legal guardian,
You are right though, the landowners own the property if his parents move, the new owners of THEIR house could make life very unpleasant for him if they didn’t want him to be there.
@@Frank-v8e1oALSO it’s his parents so they MAY NOT be making him pay rent, though that would be a good way to learn to be independent and mature, to pay bills. I’m disabled and there was a time I payed rent. Idk why that stopped I only had a room and my mother created a living room space for me for a time,but yea it wasn’t as expensive as rent would be had I lived in my own place.
Much respect for those who have these opinions... The price of housing and rent these days is outrageous!!!
Did you mean “options”?
Jacob is awesome, I met him before and he’s a smart and very respectful young man. So glad for him 😌
Love this for him! What a family.
Smart? Then can't he get a job instead of collecting disability paid for by tax payers? He can use his smarts to earn some money instead of playing video games. LOL
This is the best use of an ADU I've ever seen! MUCH better than a cruddy, troublesome AirB&B.
I have ADHD, even though that I don’t live in a ADU, but I am very grateful to be living in my grandmother‘s house That was inherited to me and I am very grateful for my mother to be given me independence. This news hits close to home.
My 28 year old son is autistic. He lives in a group home with other mentally challenged young adults. He also works part time and volunteers. Not many parents can afford to throw in an apartment to their home
These are great parents ❤️
As a disabled adult I would love this, our backyard isn’t big enough, independent living is yrs long wait and often the places aren’t in the best neighborhoods and if you are disabled safety is important. We’ve actually discussed this. The only issue is my mother doesn’t like to stay in one place for too long so if she moved and I stayed, then what would I do, I’m terrified to live too far from home, I suffer from depression.
Family compounds are a great idea.
Very supportive mom and dad .. I wish i have a parents like Jacob ..
Such an amazing idea!! Leaving your son a safe, comfortable home and teaching him independence! Well done Mom & Dad!!
No HOA restrictions on separate dwellings? How nice!
Such an awesome idea and good see the helping a ADHD young man. The State assistance is key and should be everywhere to help those with any ailment limited their independence growing up. GOD bless everyone
I love this but it’s pretty infuriating that so many can’t afford even a studio apartment. I’m so happy for Jacob & his parents! Also a plus, Jacob being a Phillies fan!! Go Phils ❤️⚾️
Most adult kids are getting support from parents. Inflation, low pay, and unable to pay for things are becoming the standard.
I think this is wonderful Good for him❤
Awesome parents, Jacob's independency matters.
If my folks had built me one of those I’d probably still be there 40 years later………😂
That’s nice. ❤
In these times of egregiously unaffordable housing even for folks with decent income, this could be a solution for anyone struggling to afford housing in California, particularly the bay area.
Yeah let strangers coming to your home or your backyard and not pay and never leave sounds fun to me.
It’s great having your own home! Maybe the next step would be looking for some kind of job. Playing video games all day can be addictive. Good luck!
better than living in their basement.
How nice …that is thinking outside of the box…great parents 😊
This is normal that's what people used to always do. It's just in the news now because everybody needs to know everybody's business. Not the way God intended it.
We love you - Ana & Tomas
Give it a few years, and our city officials will be asking for these compounds to be TAXED EXTRA. Don't count your chickens before they hatch. There's never a free ride in this country. Also, insurance companies will find a way to get more money out of homeowners. It aint over until corporations find a way to pick your pockets.
parents needed it more than him.
Sickens me that people are against even ADUs. You can’t notice them at all in the neighborhood. It’s just people telling others what to do with their property.
It's things you can't see too. Can our sewage lines handle double the amount that it was built for if everyone built an ADU? Can our roads handle almost double the amount of vehicles if everyone had another household in the backyard?
@@The_LOL-hg7wtexactly! I have a building in my backyard that has its own driveway and I could make one of those 450 sq ft and almost completed but I won't.
What a great idea!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
200k??? I recently built mine in Los Angeles for 48k... including materials
Ikr. Expensive ADU using a manufactured home too. What a rip off. And don't forget that one quarter of that was using "Napa County forgivable loan"... They should have said that Napa County tax payer dollars helped pay for one quarter of it.
@@The_LOL-hg7wt amazon has pre-made homes for 25k
While this seems heartwarming for this family, it's frustrating that a well-off family in Napa would get a $50,000 forgivable loan to add to their own property equity while so many legitimately poor, working class and middle class families don't own one home, let alone two. Their son meanwhile collects a disability check, plays video games, and enjoys the 'independence' of having taxpayer-subsidized single family housing rather than having to live in the family home or a group setting -- while not working. And now the parents' property (with ADU!) is worth EVEN MORE, so they will be able to sell their homes eventually for even more money, making the property even less affordable. I'm legitimately happy for these folks but a second home is a luxury, not a a medical or psychological necessity. This is a case study in how many progressive housing policies only benefit people who are already upwardly mobile. We shouldn't be helping professional couples nuclearize the value of their homes; we shouldn't be subsidizing single family homes for people who don't even earn an income; we shouldn't be making the housing affordability crisis even worse through these 'sounds nice' policies.
Well, taxpayer dollars could be paying for him to be in therapy and a subsidized apartment.
Napa properties are known for being expensive and I think this family is just a middle-class family who probably paid more taxes than poor and low-class people. The USD50,000 loan is an incentive for ppl creating more housing spaces as one of the ways to solve the housing crisis. Think it this way, without this ADU, Jacob could be taking a subsidized apartment which would be used by another poor or working class person. It is actually more cost effective this way than using purely public fund to build new housings. That being said, there could be more clauses added for who can build and use the ADUs to ensure the ADUs will fulfil its original purpose.
Well off family. Gets forgivable loan. And then son also gets disability. So we tax payers get to pay him to play video games.
YUP!!! Oh my God you said it all in what is going on with this!!!!!!!
@@deekang6244 OR his parents could have used their significant home equity to build their ADU.
$250K 😮
I know, seems really overpriced...
Congrats Jacob!
I'd like to put a few tiny dwellings on my property but limited to access. Saw how it was being delivered and wondering if i can use the same option. My property is just off the fwy thought it could possibly delivered from the fwy onto the property. Approx 30ft from the fwy
Sure pay for all the permits and put all the sewer and electrical and yada yada and it make you a few of them. I'm sure you can afford $200,000 per unit for a piece of nothing.
And you will be taxed like crazy.
Awesome!!!
Cool.
Get your ADU today!
Awesome
250k for ADU?
They getting SSI dissability every month
Seems like an excellent solution for their challenged son. However, I don't see a backyard ADU as a situation for adult children without such challenges. Under those circumstances, the unnecessary crutch would merely serve as an impediment to actual independence and maturity.
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Why is this news?
Must be nice to own your own home and throw around 250k like it's pocket change.
What exactly is the point of your comment?
Yeah I heard that like damn 😂😂 I thought ADU’s were like 100k max for the kind he lives in. He must have heated floors or something 😂
I own my home. Took a lot of years and a lot of work to achieve it.
@@hyperrealThat family already has alot of resources. They can build a 250k ADU, which is already alot for an ADU because most ADUs cost less. Also they used a forgivable "Napa county loan" to fund one quarter of that 250k. The reporter should just have said "Napa county tax payer dollars paid for one quarter of that 250k ADU". Not to mention the son now gets to collect disability (more tax payer dollars) while playing video games.
Slow news day?
Wow that’s wrong I never did the math I’m paying $2500/month for a 2 bedroom in Phoenix in ten years that’s $300,000. Yet I can’t get a house……😢 I feel wow renters are getting ripped off especially if your lower income with bad credit smh yet some people with a higher income pay less than I do on rent and have a better place to live ……
if someone has to watch you constantly, its not independence, its called a baby sitter.
New version of living in the basement
WHY IS THAT A BAD THING?
@@0hffs well let's start with independence. Then move on to responsibility and accountability. No I'll just live in my mom's backyard instead.
@@middleguy1776 Do you know EXACTLY what that family goes through?
@@0hffsI'm not referring to a single family I'm speaking in general. Now do you know?
@@middleguy1776 I was SPECIFICALLY talking about THIS family. But since you're the one who brought it up, every family is different and not every family is going to need to use such plan. There's ALL different situations where a family may need an annexation added to their property. I know it would have been nice to be able to have a few tax breaks to add a small addition to my property for my mother who is 75 so she can live on the ground level and be able to move in a wheelchair when the time comes. I don't understand why homes built today and the past 20 years don't take into consideration of aging and disability accessibility as a DEFAULT!
250k 😂😂😂, you can buy a real house from other place. What’s a ripoff
Yea. But they have money. I wish we can build one for our son.
I love Napa
Bro is playing videogames all day living off SSI dissability for the rest of his damn life....
Say it louder!
@@Frank-v8e1o: There will be if the fund is handled correctly.
@@rayray8687Not if companies keep hiring offshore employees. My large company is hiring most positions in India now while laying off employees in the US.
And the ADU was built using partial tax payer money thanks to that "Napa County forgivable loan". They should have said "Napa County hard working people".
@@silentnot4812: When companies use offshore contractors the employees of those contractors aren’t eligible to collect social security in the US nor do they pay into it, so it has no effect on the management of the program.
My ant did this to my cousin in LA they build a 2 bed 1 bath and her rent is $1000 a month she couldnt get a 1 bedroom in the LA area for less than 2k a month.
You make no sense.
Enabling
Pros and Cons....do the parents have pther children?? You don't hear their response if the parents did
Social Security took his SSI because he turned 18.
As a disabled retiree, an ADU would be wonderful for me. But, until housing laws are changed, I'm out of luck. America! Vote blue and help everyone, not just the 1%!
Why do you think we're in this situation to begin with! Man you don't need to be living with nobody you don't have any common sense.
Ok....
Not cool how the father referred to Jacob as “him” and not by his name or “our son”. And they threw a party to entice him to move in? Seems like tossing a cat a shiny toy. Obviously it’s as much for the parents as it is for Jacob. The key thing will be helping him with work, cooking food and being self sufficient.
He's not self sufficient; they seem to be buying themselves peace by moving his noisy video gameplaying out to backyard and giving him the illusion of living independently.
ADHD give me a break it's nothing.
Isnt this a private family matter? Do we have no shame? Isnt there a card anymore that can be held close to the chest?? Good Lord!!!!
Don’t you think they are sharing a solution they’ve found? To potentially help another family?
@@laurenm.6320 nope.....I think we share too much....
I hear you loud and clear I said the same thing.
@@laurenm.6320nope they're just like everybody else sharing too damn much it's disgusting. Definitely not biblical.
Literally not what independence is
What is independence, living in a tent by the bus terminal?
I know right. Living in your parents 250k ADU that was partially paid for by Napa Country 'forgivable loan" (aka napa county tax payers), and then sitting on your arse and collecting disability (aka tax payer money) while playing video games.
@@The_LOL-hg7wt: The ADU loans are statewide, not a county program.
@@rayray8687 yay! so state tax payers pay. Lovely
@@The_LOL-hg7wt: Lots of people who don’t use libraries, hospitals and schools help pay for them. People who don’t drive help pay for roadways. People who don’t use public transportation help subsidize it. That’s what we call ‘society’ and it’s why we choose to live as members of a society. We group our money in the form of taxation and we attempt to look after everyone, not just your specific needs or mine. You’ll learn all that one day when you need a hospital that I helped pay for or you can no longer work due to an injury. All the best to you, then and now.
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Living in denial
All funded by renter taxpayers, but the parents can't retire as long as they live here.
The parents paid for it and they’re not cheap.
@@dantheman6607 Parents paid for three quarters of it. One quarter was "Napa county forgivable loan". Where do you think this money comes from? LOL. Napa County tax payers
I just can't believe that people with ADHD get disability. I've been living without my whole life and I'm 65. Get off the video game and go live around other people and get a job.
Is u sure u know what independence means..
so still living at home?
He has developmental disabilities.
No shame in that. I live on a family compound with my family.
Yes and ??
Living at home and collecting disability paid for by tax payers. He could at least work a simple job at the grocery store. But he'd rather play video games. What crappy parenting.
Yay favelas instead of real homes
Failure to launch.
And where is he working? "Full potential" means a job.
I know right. I guess his job is "collecting disability" while sitting on his arse playing video games. Thanks tax payers!
Even lots of people without disabilities are having trouble finding work these days!
Because of Biden and Harris your ADU will be counted as potential capital gains tax 😂😂😂😂😂
I didn't realize they made more than $500k annually.
That’s not independence
Serious question, what would independence be in your opinion?
Yes, what would you recommend?
Being independent isn’t living with your parents even if your staying in the back house, being independent is leaving the nest working and maintaining a roof over your head, truthfully I’m sure he’s not in his old room because of noise simple.
Strong agree. The title should be "use partial tax payer money to build ADU and then have son collect disability paid by tax payers". Calling him independent is such a joke. They're leeches.
That is not helping him that’s enabling him. He needs to be out on his own away from his parents.
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They? He is woke for sure. Jacob is a single person.
It was mentioned, but when HE graduated high school...I think the sentence that was used for using "they" was off but not as a pronoun
Useless son😂😂😂😂😂
You must be miserable 😔 this was an heartwarming story 😊
Useless comment
What is it like to be dead inside?
I don't see what's heartwarming about a grown man that can't move out of his parents house. It's pathetic.
@@mrsleep0000 If you listen to the story you might learn something 😉