A few years ago, I realized there had been a shift in the housing needs of Seattle, where I've been designing homes for 16 years. It became clear to me that we needed to create new housing options to address our rapidly changing community. At the time, much of the housing in western Washington did not adequately support an increase in live-in elderly relatives, caregivers, and unrelated adults. Single-person households and multi-generational households were on the rise, while traditional nuclear-family households were declining. An aging population also meant a greater number of people with physical disabilities. Unfortunately, conventional housing options generally do not respond to needs such as these, so I committed myself to designing homes that did.
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