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“Missing Middle” housing refers to a range of housing types, including duplexes, triplexes, and courtyard apartments. These were prevalent in early 20th-century neighborhoods but have largely been replaced by single-family homes. This gap in our housing supply restricts affordable, diverse housing options in walkable neighborhoods. Addressing it is crucial to creating equitable, sustainable communities.
What is Missing Middle Housing?
Zoning Complexities Impede
'Missing Middle' Housing
Development
Zoning regulations, complex and inaccessible, are key hurdles in developing
‘missing middle’ housing. However, small-scale developers face high costs and time demands to navigate these codes, reducing their motivation to build affordable housing and contributing to the housing crisis.
Open Zoning makes interpreting zoning simple
Open Zoning is revolutionizing national zoning by encoding zoning policies into a user- and computer-friendly language, enabling new ways of understanding what is allowable to build in cities.
Within seconds, Open Zoning's platform helps small developers visually understand what to build on a parcel, crowdsourcing new ways forward as a bottom-up response to the housing crisis.
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