Authors offer free book download for wildfire victims

For families trying to rebuild their lives after the catastrophic California wildfires and the North Carolina weather disasters we are making our book, Under One Roof (an Amazon Best Seller), available FREE TO DOWNLOAD.

The book includes ideas about rebuilding your homes for the decades to come – such as designs for accessory dwelling units (ADUs). Assuming many folks will be living with relatives and friends during rebuilding, the book is full of ideas to make sharing housing more acceptable. Under One Roof: Creating Harmony for Multigenerational Living is an Amazon Best Seller in three categories – Parent & Adult Relationships, Aging Parents, and Family Health. Exemplary chapters are:

6. Deciding to Live Together

7. Proximity and Privacy: Living Together in Helpful Ways

9. Designing and Remodeling

10. How to Find, Buy, or Build Housing (including ADUs)

14. Making Agreements for Living Together

The process of recovery (design, permitting, and construction) will take time. One approach would be to quickly build a simple accessory dwelling unit (ADU) to provide more immediate relief. In Under One Roof we recommend separate entrances, kitchen facilities, and avoiding stairs.

Once again, the book is available for free at:

https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8qb8k7vs

Under One Roof: Creating Harmony for Multigenerational Living

By Emily K. Graham, Angel L. Vargas, and John L. Graham

For more information contact John Graham, jgraham@uci.edu or 949-280-1982.