Talk About Town: Missing Middle 101

Join us for the first installment of the Missing Middle series. Missing Middle Housing is not a new type of building. It is a range of building types existing in cities and towns across the country and were a fundamental building block in pre-1940s neighborhoods. They are most likely present on some of your favorite city blocks—you may even have them in your own neighborhood (from missingmiddlehousing.com).A major theme will be accessory dwelling units, which are one of the oldest and most common ways of wealth building-and now outlawed almost everywhere. This type of housing is seeing a revival as the cost of housing continues to rise beyond what current wages can accommodate.