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Death to Single-Family Zoning…and New Life to the Missing Middle

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Planners in the United States and Canada should stop defending single-family zoning, the single most harmful widely used practice in planning. In the century since first adoption, it has exacerbated both inequality and climate change. Land use regulations that make a singly occupied, detached house on a large parcel the only allowable option should be replaced, wherever they exist, with new rules that allow medium-density, or “Missing Middle,” housing to be built by right. These changes should be applied broadly at the scale of an entire city or, best of all, a state, rather than piecemeal. Encouraging recent events in Minneapolis (MN), Oregon, and elsewhere show that single-family zoning is being seriously challenged for the first time, but more progress is needed.

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  • Jake Wegmann, 2020. "Death to Single-Family Zoning…and New Life to the Missing Middle," Journal of the American Planning Association, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 86(1), pages 113-119, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rjpaxx:v:86:y:2020:i:1:p:113-119
    DOI: 10.1080/01944363.2019.1651217
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    1. Kim, Jae Hong & Li, Xiangyu, 2021. "Building more housing near transit: A spatial analysis of residential densification dynamics," Transport Policy, Elsevier, vol. 114(C), pages 15-24.
    2. Sahar Khaleel & Bernadette Hanlon, 2023. "The rise of single-family rentals and the relationship to opportunity neighbourhoods for low-income families with children," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 60(13), pages 2706-2724, October.
    3. Rumbach, Andrew & Sullivan, Esther & McMullen, Shelley & Makarewicz, Carrie, 2022. "You don’t need zoning to be exclusionary: Manufactured home parks, land-use regulations and housing segregation in the Houston metropolitan area," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 123(C).
    4. Keagan Hudson Rankin & Aldrick Arceo & Kaan Isin & Shoshanna Saxe, 2024. "Embodied GHG of missing middle: Residential building form and strategies for more efficient housing," Journal of Industrial Ecology, Yale University, vol. 28(3), pages 455-468, June.
    5. Jae Hong Kim & Jongho Won, 2024. "Exploring variations in local land use regulations in the U.S.: What matters and at what level?," The Annals of Regional Science, Springer;Western Regional Science Association, vol. 73(3), pages 1071-1095, October.
    6. Davis, Jenna, 2021. "How do upzonings impact neighborhood demographic change? Examining the link between land use policy and gentrification in New York City," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 103(C).
    7. Brian J. Asquith & Margaret C. Bock, 2022. "The Case for Dynamic Cities," Upjohn Working Papers 22-373, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.

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