\n\n“The modest increase in housing production can be largely explained by how marginal many of these missing middle reforms have been.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Often, cities will legalize missing middle housing without allowing the new multi-unit buildings to be much larger than the single-family homes they’d replace. That means a builder faces all the costs of tearing down an old unit without the ability to add much additional revenue-generating floor space.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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“Another problem facing missing middle home construction is a whole thicket of nonzoning rules and practices that assume new construction will either be single-family homes or larger apartment buildings.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n