@dtkmelissa If you can add hashtags to your posts here, they’ll reach more people. I’d like to see that 😀❤️

#CanPoli #ONpoli #Housing #MissingMiddle

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/

2025: The year Edmonton built the missing middle – Jacob Dawang

Edmonton’s zoning reform is working. In 2025, newly legalized eight-home rowhomes drove a record increase in homebuilding, achieved by redeveloping only 0.39% of properties in mature neighbourhoods.

Jacob Dawang
Video: Fixing North America’s Big Elevator Problem | Sightline Institute

Our bans on smaller elevators block accessible homes, and our insistence on unique standards drives up prices.

Sightline Institute

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 The type of thing where one little tweak to some well established but simplistic and outdated rules can have ripple effects.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/

How a Single Stairway Can Take Affordable Housing to a Whole New Level

Cities are rethinking their codes to step up housing options and reduce construction costs.

American Planning Association
https://www.centerforbuilding.org/publication/beyond-zoninghidden-code-barriers-to-middle-scale-housing “communities are also finding that simply allowing a fourplex on paper does not guarantee that one will be built” #zoning #MissingMiddle #housing #shortage #BuildingCode
"Our code today treats a four-plex the same as a 200-unit apartment building. That doesn’t make sense. It drives up construction costs and discourages the kinds of housing we say we want in Dallas" #Dallas #BuildingCode #housing #MissingMiddle #shortage https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/dallas-adopts-residential-code-change-for-missing-middle-housing-22206984/
Dallas City Council Adopts Residential Code Change to Promote ‘Missing Middle’ Housing

The code change has been described as a "transformative step" in promoting housing density and diversity.

Dallas Observer
https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/news/charlottesville-virginia-zoning-lawsuit-settlement/804135/ “The city’s updated zoning eliminates single-family zoning and parking space requirements at new developments, moves intended to address the city’s housing affordability crisis.” #cville #housing #litigation #zoning #shortage #ParkingReform #MissingMiddle
How Charlottesville, Virginia, is getting its zoning back

The city is settling a lawsuit that left it without a zoning ordinance since this summer.

Smart Cities Dive
NH Investment & Securities CEO Yoon Byung-woon calls for expanding private debt and growth PE markets to address South Korea's "Missing Middle" funding gap, urging securities firms to play a more active intermediary role in scaling up innovative companies and restructuring traditional industries.
#YonhapInfomax #NHInvestmentSecurities #MissingMiddle #VentureCapital #PrivateDebt #GrowthPE #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=85675
Yoon Byung-woon of NH Investment & Securities Outlines IMA Vision—'Venture Capital Needed to Bridge the 'Missing Middle'' - Yonhap Infomax

NH Investment & Securities CEO Yoon Byung-woon calls for expanding private debt and growth

Yonhap Infomax
https://www.vpm.org/news/2025-09-18/richmond-zoning-code-refresh-update-housing-development-vonck-robertson “stick to the master plan and put the necessary zoning in place so that the master plan can become a reality, which is what Richmonders asked us to do” #RVA #housing #zoning #shortage #MissingMiddle #displacement

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