Design by the Rules: The Historical Underpinnings of Form-Based Codes
October 31, 2025Economic Sustainability and ‘Missing Middle Housing’: Associations between Housing Stock Diversity and Unemployment in Mid-Size U.S. Cities
October 31, 2025Unlocking the Potential of Missing Middle Housing
By Garcia, D., Alameldin, M., Metcalf, B., & Fulton, W.
Full Citation
Garcia, D., Alameldin, M., Metcalf, B., & Fulton, W. (2022). Unlocking the potential of missing middle housing. Terner Center for Housing Innovation.
Key Findings
Missing middle housing can be an important part of the overall housing solution, providing meaningful amounts of housing in existing single-family neighborhoods without significantly altering the look and feel of those places. Policymakers are increasingly interested in this development type, as indicated by the spate of new laws across the country meant to catalyze its growth. However, policymakers must look beyond “ending single-family zoning” in order to see this housing type built. Changing base zoning is unlikely to yield meaningful amounts of new housing without parallel policy changes.
