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Missing Middle Housing—
not too big, not too little, just right.
The image above shows in white the two primary dwelling types found in most cities: single-family homes and mid-rise apartment buildings. What’s lacking, shown in yellow, are the diverse and complementary missing middle homes, such as duplexes, triplexes,...
Highlights From Housing North’s Annual Housing Summit
Above: Multifamily row houses built America's iconic cities, and they remain in great demand today. A lack of residences such as these tried-and-true smaller multifamily dwellings is part of the "missing middle" problem that housing advocates see as essential to...
The Traverse City of Tomorrow Is on the Drawing Board
We asked city planner Shawn Winter to share some backstory and tips for engaging. Traverse City's City Planner, Shawn Winter, is undertaking two major planning pieces not even two years into the job. This fall, the city is rewriting the Master Plan and creating the...