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Originally Posted by TWAK
Yeah, I have not heard of them called casitas, and normally as Californians we interact with Hispanics on a daily basis. I'm not sure how many places in nor cal even have one of those granny flats. When I lived in downtown Sac they had apartment variations, but they were just called "backyard apartments".
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In San Francisco they are often called a "garage" . . . because that's what so many of them are. A huge number of San Francisco houses are built over first floor garages and a lot of those garages have been turned into rentable living space, often without benefit of a building permit (so it's hard to find a number of them and I just spent about 20 minutes trying).
I'd bet anything this house once had a ground floor garage:
like this one still does:
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