LOS ANGELES -- Walking into the sunlit accessory dwelling unit just steps from his family's home in Culver City, Adrian Perez places his hands on the wall of his bedroom and smiles broadly.
"Adrian likes to touch everything," explains his mother, Andrea Villicana. "When the ADU was completed, he knocked on all the walls and tested the acoustics. He likes to help. He's a big helper."
Villicana has long worried about long-term care for the 33-year-old Perez, who is developmentally disabled and nonverbal due to health complications when he was a baby.
