With many baby boomers wanting to downsize, the housing market is dominated by large, single-family homes…but that’s not the kind of housing that’s in demand, anymore. Here’s why this is bad news for all generations.
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While other places keep finding ways to say “no” to new housing, this Indiana city is offering pre-approved development templates to small-scale developers at no cost.
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Last week, the city council of Spokane, WA, voted on a truly “bold, transformational package” that will allow for more forms of missing-middle housing and infill development in the city.
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"Developers in my city are only building luxury housing. They're not building anything that ordinary people can afford." If you’ve said this lately, or heard someone else say it, here are five possible reasons why.
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This walking tour in Sacramento, CA, reveals much about its past and present challenges with housing.
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Shelley Denison is a city planner in Sandy, OR, who views planning as a relationship between residents and leaders.
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In Monopoly, there are only two types of real estate: houses and hotels. But were hotels understood differently in 1904, when the game was first created?
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Even people who know the historic benefits of duplexes (and the like) can be wary of re-legalizing them. We need to understand why if we want to effectively promote missing middle housing.
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There’s no large city in America that’s doing a better job of pivoting to a Strong Towns approach than Memphis, TN. Here’s why.
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What can we learn about the housing market and corporations buying back their own stock...through anecdotal references? (As it turns out, quite a lot!)
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Given our current pattern of development, is it overly romantic to want to transition through the stages of life while remaining in the same neighborhood, with the same people around us?
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Here’s how middle housing went “missing” in North America…while remaining part of the city fabric in much of Europe.
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Something remarkable is happening this year in City Halls across America.
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Want to better inform yourself — or your neighbors — on why we need more “middle housing”? Start with these 4 resources.
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Stickplexes — dense residential structures on 2,500 square feet of land per unit or less — are an underutilized option for many towns and cities. They can often go where missing middle cannot.
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Solving the housing crisis requires bringing back “missing-middle” housing. The planner who coined the term “missing-middle” explains how.
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Sometimes to appreciate the power, versatility, and appeal of missing middle housing, it helps to go somewhere it still exists.
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A home that’s been flexible in meeting the family’s needs for generations finds new use during the COVID-19 crisis.
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Don’t underestimate the power of small-scale development—if undertaken at a large scale, by many hands—to transform our cities for the better.
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We used to have a different name for the modest dwellings that now get labeled “tiny houses.” For most of history, this was simply a house—a low-cost way for people to put down roots in a place and begin to grow some wealth for themselves and the neighborhood.
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