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A garage apartment [1] (also called a coach house, garage suite or in Australia, Fonzie flat [2]) is an apartment built within the walls of, or on top of, the garage of a house. The garage may be attached or a separate building from the main house, but will have a separate entrance and may or may not have a communicating door to the main house.
4-over-1 and 3-over-1 in the background 5-over-1 style apartment buildings in Austin, Texas. 5-over-1 or over-1s, also known as a one-plus-five or a podium building, [1] is a type of multi-family residential building commonly found in urban areas of North America.
Snout house: a house with the garage door being the closest part of the dwelling to the street. Octagon house: a house of symmetrical octagonal floor plan, popularized briefly during the 19th century by Orson Squire Fowler; Stilt house: is a house built on stilts above a body of water or the ground (usually in swampy areas prone to flooding).
Money would go to homeowners looking to build accessory dwelling units, such as an apartment in the basement or yard or over the garage.
The Teaneck-based nonprofit Bright Side Family, which provides affordable housing, affordable assisted living, and support services for low-and-moderate-income older adults, gets "calls all of the ...
Garage-apartment: an apartment over a garage; if the garage is attached, the apartment will have a separate entrance from the main house. Garlow: a portmanteau word "garage" + "bungalow"; similar to a garage-apartment, but with the apartment and garage at the same level.
Costco partners with Thrive Living to build an 800-unit apartment over a new store in L.A., using pre-fab modules to address the city's housing crisis.
Earlier garages were often detached and located in the back yard of the house, accessed either via a long driveway or from an alley. In the past, garages were often separate buildings from the house ("detached garage"). On occasion, a garage would be built with an apartment above it, which could be rented out.