2018

YES to ADU
talleres publicos
communication + unity = poetry (community)
willowbrook edition

edited by Jessica Ceballos
for Big City Forum & the LA County Arts Commission

Reimagine your neighborhood with Accessory Dwelling Units! This publication was created for and by the Willowbrook community, Los Angeles community informed by a public event held at AC Bilbrew Library, facilitated by Big City Forum. The event featured community workshops with Jessica Ceballos' storytelling and poetry as well as Maria Lamadrid's collaborative design methods.

While LA County confronts this shared humanitarian crisis and works to find a path forward, the Arts Commission, as a partner in the Homeless Initiative’s Second Dwelling Units Pilot Program, is helping to promote the development of ADUs by gathering ideas as a resource to generate solutions for affordable housing. As a part of this, the LA County Arts Commission put on the Yes to ADU Design Competition, which invited artists and architects interested in the role of ADUs as part of the solution to solve LA County's homeless crisis to submit designs for their own ADU Solutions.