"Moving back wasn't always the plan for LaMarche, but her mother, Ellen, steered things in that direction. She had bought the house with her now-ex-husband for $260,000, in 1991, and spent the years after LaMarche and her sister moved out "rattling around on three floors" above the ground-floor level where a tenant lived. When they moved out, she renovated the four-story building to become two duplexes, with an " If you build it, they will come"fantasy."
"Then, in 2020, LaMarche's landlord refused to renew their lease. She and her husband, both freelancers who together made around $100,000 a year, had been paying $2,800 a month for a two-bedroom in Prospect Heights. It was starting to feel impossible to find more space for around the same price. The duplex, they had to admit, was kind of perfect. LaMarche and her husband now pay about the same rent as before for a three-bedroom at the top of her childhood home,"
A Park Slope brownstone passed through renovation and ownership changes has become a practical multigenerational home. A woman and her husband moved back into the top duplex of her childhood house after losing a rental and facing rising rents. The mother had converted the four-story building into two duplexes and continued living on the ground floor. The returning couple now pay similar rent for a larger, three-bedroom space while the neighborhood's housing prices and rents remain high, making multigenerational arrangements increasingly attractive for those with family homes.
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