April 1, 2025
Amy Thomaso, Chris Herbert
The missing average housing-a term refers to the types of building between one family house and a high-rise medium apartments building-is increasingly seen by politics, housing advocates, architects, land use planners, and developers as one possible solution to the well-known housing crisis in Massachusetts and through the United States. This scale of housing is ideal for Invirban Interpan sites, and it carries a wide range of housing preferences, life stages, budgets, and is often built by developers invested in their local societies. However, regulations division, development reviews, financing structures, and anti -density land use model, among other obstacles, have made medium housing missing more difficult.
Our new report, which opens the missing medium, will search three aspects of the middle housing. Part 1, “Wiping the missing middle housing – declines in the United States and Massachusetts” provides this housing classification overview, along with the main obstacles and opportunities for its greatest production; Part 2 will explore policy solutions from other states and municipalities that offer lost middle housing to the market; Part 3 will suggest Wraparound pillars behind politics to enable more large -scale Middle Housing building.
