“Existing residential garages may present the single best opportunity to quickly and inexpensively generate new housing for low-income renters — and new wealth for low-income homeowners. However, garage conversions are still challenging and cost-prohibitive for under-resourced property owners in the Bay Area,” according to Ouyang, who works as a research manager at Stanford’s Regulation, Evaluation and Governance Lab and also serves as executive director of City Systems, a nonprofit consultancy he co-founded in 2017 to address housing, equity and sustainability issues in local communities. City Systems is the nonprofit leading the Aduo initiative.