VIA ZONING REFORM
“Larger-lot-size zoning forces a person to buy a house and a yard. Some people don’t want yards,” said Aaron Shroyer, senior advisor with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Policy Development & Research.
“What you’re doing is guaranteeing less density. Houston lowered minimum lot sizes from 5,000 square feet to 1,400 about 25 years ago.
I’ve read that it produced 80,000 more houses.
Now we can’t say the smaller lot sizes are the causation
for every house, but it seemed to bring more units to market and more options
means more affordability.”
Shroyer agrees with many affordable housing advocates who say cities should allow missing middle and larger multifamily development by right — meaning no expensive variances or land-use changes are required.
He also said cities could
remove barriers to adaptive reuse and conversion of office or commercial
buildings into housing.
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