Missing Middle Housing Reading List
The Housing Imperative
Nine Totally Necessary Evolutionary Changes for Seattle’s Residential Neighborhoods The Urbanist 4.16.20
Cities turn to ‘missing middle’ housing to keep older millennials from leaving Washington Post 12.9.17
Bring Back Missing Middle Housing AARP 2019
History of Seattle Zoning: This Is How You Slow-Walk into a Housing Shortage Sightline 5.23.2018
Single Detached House Zoning
It’s Time to End Single-Family Zoning Journal of the American Planning Association 12.6.2019
Lessons from Oregon’s Missing Middle Success Sightline 11.4.19
How Minneapolis Ended Single-Family Zoning The Century Foundation 10.24.2019
How Seattle Designed Neighborhood Plans to Inhibit Inclusivity The Urbanist 10.17.19
Washington Legislature Opts for Incentives Over Mandates to Promote Housing Density in HB 1923 The Urbanist 5.14.19
Cities Start to Question an American Ideal: A House With a Yard on Every Lot New York Times 6.18.19
Americans Need More Neighbors New York Times 6.15.19
Is it Time to Ditch 1950’s Era Single-Family Zoning? The Urbanist 12.4.18
Rapidly growing Seattle constrains new housing through widespread single-family zoning Seattle Times 5.10.18
ADUs
Will Wall Street invade Seattle’s single-family neighborhoods? Not likely, experts say Crosscut 7.18.20
ADUs In, McMansions Out, and Could Fourplexes Be Next? The Urbanist 7.2.2019
Washington Just Advanced the Nation’s Best ADU Reform. Here’s Why It’ll Help. Sightline 2/28/2019
Seattle Planning Commission Reports
Neighborhoods for All Fall 2018
Evolving Seattle’s Growth Strategy Winter 2020
Rectifying Seattle’s racist past requires a denser future, says report Crosscut 12.12.2018
Architects as Advocates
Elevating the Role of Architects as Advocates for Equitable Housing Next City 9.20.18
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