It took a progressive Virginia suburb 8 years to let developers build apartments instead of single-family houses. It shows how hard it is to build middle-class housing in the US.
released by the county last year found nearly 80% of homeowners opposed the missing middle policy and about 70% of renters supported it.
But seniors are among those who could benefit the most from having new, smaller accessible housing in their neighborhoods. Some Democrats, like Arlington County Board candidate Natalie Roy, are deeply opposed to the missing middle effort. Roy, who's also a realtor, argued that the policy change won't lead to desperately needed affordable housing for low-income residents. Her alternativeinvolves offering more financial assistance to lower-income residents and more housing opportunities for seniors, but wouldn't create much new supply.
But upzoning supporters and experts say the additional supply of even high-end homes helps alleviate demand on existing housing. "What I've come to understand is, it's not enough to have housing for the poorest of the poor," Findikoglu said."We need abundant housing at every single level." In Minneapolis, which was the first US city to legalize multi-unit buildings on single-family lots, few new triplexes have been built because the land use reforms haven't been made. But Portland, Oregon — which now allows up to four-unit buildings on previously single-family lots — also changed their codes to allow the new structures to be larger than single-family homes.
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