A great new interpretation of the #missingmiddle housing types.

Cities serious about #housing will CLEARLY express their intent to re-legalize all of these forms.

(By Union Studio)

Do not let anyone tell you that zoning is the answer.
Zoning is THE PROBLEM.

via @remainplaces @newbedford

I'm #MAHCA.

Make Affordable Housing Cute Again.

It's amazing what a few porches, trees, and awnings can do.

via @kronbergua

Who Killed the American Starter Home?
And why was #Durham one of the few to bring it back?

Articulation regulations originate from narcissists with NO design skills.

Such mandates are ahistorical, willfully ignorant of the fact that many (if not most) of humanity's most loved buildings have ZERO articulation.

#architecture #traditionaldesign #badplanning #zoning

Is your city focused on the right thing?

Fred Rogers would have turned 98 this month.

His values predate the #YIMBY movement by decades, but in most ways, Fred Rogers is the OY, Original YIMBY, a case I argue below.

Read my latest onHousing: linkviabio

#housing #pbs #urbanism

Credit to Chris Ritter and @DPZCoDESIGN . This is their Ivanhoe project in ChicagoLand, but also Vista Field in Tri Cities, WA and Lakeport Beach, Ontario.

Great work, and great artwork!

Walkable mixed use developments are possible, and people are building them. But those people have to fight:

the politicians
the planners
the engineers
the fire marshall
the bankers
the appraisers and
the neighbors

I could not count on two hands the number of times I have heard that "supply and demand does not matter" or "#housing is far too important for supply and demand to apply."

It's always always always peddled by someone with a terminal degree.
ALWAYS.

Full Frame Film Festival Passes are now on sale.
Who wants to join me at the festival and watch some flicks?

https://www.fullframefest.org/attend/passes-tickets/

I built the home that replace "the Duke Lacrosse House"

Today, I write about 1) why I worry that we didn't learn the lessons, 2) how awful the events were for my community, and 3) why we are likely to repeat them again.

📖My latest, onHousing:
https://www.aaronlubeck.com/publish/post/190388644

Sometimes, infill construction can make a neighborhood look MORE like itself.

#infill #incrementaldevelopment #architecture #traditional #design

There is #missingmiddlehousing, and then there is SMALL missing middle housing.
The graphic helps understand the most # affordable forms of shelter.

art by the great @alfred.twu

Mixed-use, mixed-income communities are built horizontally AND vertically.
They happen naturally when the people are allowed to build.

#Haussmann #Paris 🇫🇷

They keep trying to legislate it out of existence,
but nothing is as beautiful and efficient as the basic urban box.

The problem isn’t that expertise is overrated. It’s that we’ve stopped demanding competence from experts.

Read my latest, onHousing: www.aaronlubeck.com/p/rick-cole-on-why-we-st...

"Cities are for the people." - Jane Jacobs

There is a difference between OVERCROWDING and #DENSITY.

DENSITY is what PREVENTS:
#Overcrowding
#Displacement
#Sprawl

graphic by the great @alfred.twu

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Earl's Court.
Mt Pleasant, SC.

Read all about it at www.aaronlubeck.com

Not progress.
Not progressive.

Today, we study why facades matter by looking at Earl's Court, one of the best executed, densest single-family detached developments ever built.

Read my latest, onHousing
🔗ViaBio!

#newurbanism #charleston #walkable #housing

A list of civic building types in #Durham that can build three ADUs, by right:

Fire/EMS Station
Water tank tower
Church, mosque, temple
Bus station
Park
Government office
School
Library
Museum
+more

This Thursday (2/26), I will be teaching a Small Scale Incremental Development Workshop in #Danville, #VA, for aspiring developers and community leaders.

register here 👉 https://buff.ly/gcQHcXX

#Community #RealEstate #housing #development #NC

You cannot legislate beauty.

www.aaronlubeck.com/p/what-court...

Courtyard Housing promises to improve housing options in urban settings.

Ross Chapin's #PocketNeighborhood book posits that there are limits to the Scale of Sociability, beyond which communities begin to crack.

Read my latest, onHousing:
https://loom.ly/7EkwVxM

The average new home produces an average of FOUR tons of waste.

When I was restoring historic homes, our gut jobs consistently yielded TWENTY FIVE+ tons of waste.

#historicpreservation #restoration

Ironically, no one saw it coming.

yup, pardon the confusion!