In the UK, planning systems have created a housing shortage. Here’s how a bottom-up approach could address the problem.
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Large-scale investors are dominating the housing market, at the expense of actual people who want to become homeowners.
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Lack of affordability, the gap between the rich and poor, strained public infrastructure: California’s problems are now becoming Texas’s problems.
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The housing market has been insane for decades. That it’s less insane in a small town is only one reason you should consider buying there.
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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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An amendment passed back in the ‘90s limits the amount of public housing in the U.S. How far will repealing it go toward addressing the housing crisis?
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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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Incremental change doesn’t mean slow change. In fact, unleashing the power of the many to make small changes in response to immediate needs may be the only approach that is up to the scale of the problems our cities face.
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The City of Philadelphia is pursuing expensive new construction while neglecting basic maintenance on hundreds of houses that could become homes for low-income residents. Now, residents are taking matters into their own hands.
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Minneapolis made waves when it ended single-family zoning. Yet the devil’s in the details—and some of the details that will make or break this policy are being decided right now.
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There’s a a lot of misunderstanding about developers: what they do and how their business model works. Here are 6 things you need to understand to have informed conversations about development in your city.
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Vacancy rates are a crucial piece of bottom-up feedback. They can tell us when the housing ecosystem is out of equilibrium. But there are larger questions they can’t answer.
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The fallout from the pandemic is spurring a housing re-shuffling in San Francisco. And not just from people fleeing the city—but people moving to the city and within the city.
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As the housing crisis grows more severe, cities are looking outside the box for solutions. Case in point, a program in Israel that became a significant source of new housing, almost by accident.
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Portland, Oregon has joined the ranks of cities ending their apartment bans and allowing the next increment of residential development everywhere. Here’s a run-down of why they just might have passed the best such policy yet.
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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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How have cities throughout history successfully grown and met their need for new homes? Two metaphors from nature provide the key.
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