The Salt Lake Tribune sat down with the man who coined the term 'missing middle housing' to talk about the concept and why it matters in Utah.
Since 2015, the vast majority of building permits issued in Utah have been for single-family homes, but one expert says there’s a better way to chip away at the state’s affordability crisis.
And this is a concept that I created in 2011 to really emphasize the gap between the types of housing that the market was delivering and what households wanted. Now it’s what they want, but, just as importantly, what they need as fewer and fewer households, even in this market, can afford to purchase a single-family detached house.
What we like to demonstrate is Mews, where approximately 15% to 20% is smaller in overall square footage, but we wanted to demonstrate that with thoughtful design, you can deliver a smaller unit, and it’s still very livable. Missing middle sort of caps out at 2½, sometimes three stories, and so it’s all wood construction, which keeps the cost down.
I have a slide I’ve used for 15 years, which is a picture of a camera from 1920-something. It’s the same year that zoning was created. And you can imagine, if you want to take a picture and post it on social media or even just email it to your friend, you’re not going to use that camera. But that’s what we’re still using to try to regulate development in our all of our cities.
You always want to tie who the housing is for into the conversation. It’s not just buildings for buildings’ sake. As an example, we’ve seen a lot of instances where we’ll be working in a city, and even at the decision-maker level, there’s some resistance to it. But then at some point, when their kids decide they want to move back to the town that they grew up in, and they can’t afford to actually buy a place, and then it’s like, “Aha, it’s not that other person.
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