2016: A Big Year for Missing Middle Housing

Around the country, issues around housing affordability, demand for more housing choices, and neighborhood compatibility are growing. Cities are in desperate need of solutions, and Missing Middle Housing, as one tool providing solutions, is catching on like wildfire. Here’s how 2016 was a big year for Missing Middle Housing.

Missing Middle Housing Close Up: Carriage Houses

Calling all small-scale developers and entrepreneurial homeowners: make Smart Growth happen right at home and provide a little space for grandma. It’s happening across the country, and we look at why.

The “Missing Middle” Housing Affordability Solution

It’s one thing when the economic theory of supply and demand affects the prices of our consumer goods, but it’s particularly problematic when it affects our basic need for a home.

Does Missing Middle Housing Fit Your Needs?

Not everyone envisions themselves in a Missing Middle Housing dwelling, but a variety of households, from single millennials to young families to empty nesters, can find the ideal Missing Middle unit and take advantage of a walkable community. Let’s take a look.

Opticos Goes Back to School: 2016 Edition

Tony Perez, Opticos’ Director of Form-Based Coding, recently wrapped up a second edition of his design studio class at UCLA, which focused on the differences between the prevalent use-based planning system and the increasingly popular form-based planning system.