from @jacobdawang.com: "Clearly, there is a huge number of people who would prefer to rent a townhome in a mature, central neighbourhood than be forced into a single-detached home in a new suburb."

#yeg #yegcc #housing #missingmiddle

https://www.jacobdawang.com/blog/2026/zbr-two-year-review/

The single staircase restriction or the double hung hallway requirement is one of those interesting "one little thing" rules. The type of thing where one little tweak to some well established but simplistic and outdated rules can have ripple effects.

#missingMiddle housing in the US is a multifaceted problem of course, but at least some progress is being made to address it.

https://www.planning.org/planning/2025/nov/how-a-single-stairway-can-take-affordable-housing-to-a-new-level/

KELLY: What do you see as the biggest national security threat facing our country today?

SLOTKIN: I really believe that the existential threat to the country is not coming from abroad. It's the shrinking middle-class at home and what that does to our stability here.

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/11/nx-s1-5528972/shrinking-middle-class-threatens-u-s-stability-says-michigan-democrat-elissa-slotkin

#Inequality #MissingMiddle #MDPPC