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Miss GayleMissGayle@urbanists.social
2025-12-05

"Incremental housing is not a radical transformation. It’s a return to the adaptable neighborhoods we built for generations.

But helping people rediscover that truth starts with listening, and this conversation starts best at the most local level at city hall."

Article: strongtowns.org/journal/2025-1

#Housing #Affordability #Community #Sustainability #Urbanism #InfillDevelopment #ADU #Local #Government

Why State Housing Reform is Failing (and What We Can Do About It) Statewide zoning reform isn't producing the wins everyone expected. An architect reveals why: the permissions may have changed, but the reflexes never adapted. Edward Erfurt, Dec 2, 2025 A photo of steps leading to a capital statehouse, washed in blue overlay, with an orange background of monopoly-style houses in a grid pattern. "What State Mandates Can’t Do A mandate can change the zoning, but it cannot: Teach staff how to right-size their review. Build trust between cities and local builders. Reform decades of overengineered building codes designed for the biggest projects. Create financing tools that fit the scale of a backyard cottage rather than a cookie cutter suburban home. Form local partnerships between small banks and small developers. Reduce the cultural fear of neighborhoods evolving again. These changes must be made locally. They are the “ecosystem” of incremental developers, contractors, plan reviewers, lenders, and neighbors. This is why state reforms so often underdeliver: the structure changed, the permissions changed, but the systems never adapted."
AlyseAlyse.dezign@pixelfed.social
2025-04-04
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#urbaninfill #infilldevelopment #architecture #modernarchitecture #dreamhouse #luxuryhome
jon zellwegerjnzllwgr.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
2025-01-26

Looking for some inspo on a soon-to-be starting new townhouse project. Love how the open stair organizes each floor and pulls you up through the floor plates. Tight spaces, but lovely, robust and comfortable finishes throughout. #townhouse #architecture #impei #infilldevelopment #missingmiddle

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Miss GayleMissGayle@urbanists.social
2024-11-03

“While homelessness is a complex issue, it is at its core a housing problem,” notes the report.

strongtowns.org/journal/2024/9

#Housing
#Affordability
#InFillDevelopment
#UrbanPlanning

“While homelessness is a complex issue, it is at its core a housing problem,” notes the report. https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2024/9/5/is-infill-microhousing-the-solution-to-high-homelessness-rates “This toolkit takes a housing-first approach, with a goal of providing attainable and incremental housing prototypes that can fit seamlessly into existing neighborhoods.” The focus on infill at a manageable scale avoids concentrations of poverty. “If more attainable housing can be provided city-wide, fewer people will fall into the traumatic experience of homelessness,” the authors explain. The housing types include a variety of single-story buildings: studio cottages, studio duplexes, one-bedroom cottages and one-bedroom duplexes. The toolkit also includes small, two-story multifamily buildings. Even the multifamily buildings are on a scale similar to that of single-family homes. The units are designed to be attractive (“dignified”) yet inexpensive to construct.

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