After months, Asheville’s Missing Middle Housing Study, focused on how to address the lack of housing for middle-income residents, is ready for final review.
Owning a single-family home in the suburbs was a specific model designed at a specific time and marketed to specific people. There’s nothing wrong with being a suburban single-family homeowner, if that style of housing works for you and for your family. But other types of housing — both rental and owner-occupied — can also provide the opportunity for people to live and participate in communities.
Arlington County, a Washington, D.C., community that took shape in the 1950s, when single-family homes were the rule in suburbia, recently became one of the first locations on the East Coast to eliminate single-family-only zoning.