Lately I've been thinking a lot about how you get mass production of accessible, detached single-family housing, and I've been returning to this classix @OldUrbanist piece on lot sizes: oldurbanist.blogspot.com/2015/03/single…
The root of America's housing problem isn't that we lack land, but that we waste it. We're still operating on the Levittown model, in which each home is mandated by zoning + subdivison regs to consume ~6,250 sqft of land. (5k lot + half of 50' wide ROW)
@mnolangray @OldUrbanist great points from Nolan Gray citing @OldUrbanist on restoring mass, popular housing forms. It's long overdue to question the urbanist crusade against detached or single-unit housing, & we do in projects #LevitateTown (New Starter Homes) bit.ly/levitatetown, & @BuildersApology
@mnolangray @OldUrbanist great points from Nolan Gray citing @OldUrbanist on restoring mass, popular housing forms. It's long overdue to question the urbanist crusade against detached or single-unit housing, & we do in projects #LevitateTown (New Starter Homes) bit.ly/levitatetown, & @BuildersApology https://t.co/ztUFTxny6U
@mnolangray @OldUrbanist Americans like fee simple absolute deeds a lot more than they like condominiums agreements. 👍
@mnolangray @OldUrbanist The other big, underrated thing about lot splits is that you can, on biggish lots, preserve the original house if the municipality allows flag lots or similar access. That's a $100k savings at least, and preserves a usually-cheap home while densifying.
