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Why North America zoning and building codes mean developers can't build nice family friendly "missing middle" housing/apartments (www.youtube.com)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by NarrativeBear@lemmy.world to c/canada@lemmy.ca
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We need to make our cities and towns more family friendly. This is called the "missing middle" in housing, and it's why in north america all we see are either large condo towers or single family homes, which also drives our urban sprawl problems.

Almost all new large towers/buildings in north america prioritize bachelor's units 1 and 2 bedroom units. Trying to find a well priced 3 or 4 bedroom in a "lively" downtown center, close to transit and work, with plenty of schooling in the area is almost impossible. It's also a factor in why cities became so empty during the pandemic, ie. Not to many families living permanently in cities.

Here's a good article that also talks about the same issue with some different apparment layouts, and why developers don't provide adequate family units.

https://www.centerforbuilding.org/blog/we-we-cant-build-family-sized-apartments-in-north-america

This together with zoning requirements in north america is pushing most cities and developers to only cater towards large towers or single family housing.

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[–] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This video is also worth a watch to see how this ties in with car dependency in cities and suburbs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCOdQsZa15o

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[–] otter@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 months ago

Huh interesting

My gut reaction was that larger apartment buildings could use space more efficiently, but this was an interesting discussion about the other details around the layout

[–] SideshowBoz@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

His whole series is worth watching. And seriously, this post is so much more informative and less party-politics than the other post on here about that β€œwar-time” housing plan πŸ™„

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[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

either large condo towers or single family homes, which also drives our urban sprawl problems

Large condo towers don't drive urban sprawl; they're the only thing we have fixing it.

Bad idea by the OP, or bad punctuation making an eats/shoots/leaves sentence?

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