Is TOD an Awesome Missing Middle Housing Policy?
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Learning Outcomes
- Understand the characteristics of missing middle housing, TOD, and the overlap between the two.
- Appreciate the critical economic feasibility considerations of large-scale TOD, particularly multifamily housing.
- Understand the tension between TOD as once conceived and how it often plays out in practice as a missing middle housing policy.
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Cities are struggling mightily to allow missing middle housing in an effort to address social justice and housing affordability, but TOD policies have already succeeded. The TOD policy world would benefit from highlighting its smaller-scale wins, including unlocking economic opportunity for thousands of families through missing middle development.