Oregon Just Voted to Legalize Duplexes on Almost Every City Lot
There are some comments about infrastructure deficiencies here. Reality: Sprawl is more of a burden on municipal jurisdictions because infrastructure, including roads, has to be extended to it and it&#x27;s not dense enough to adequately cover the cost involved.<p>If you play SimCity, you can kind of model this by creating a new city from scratch and creating an urban core. Place a fire department and police department at the center and build out to roughly the perimeter of their coverage.<p>Keep improving development within that footprint until you have an economically viable city, then add a satellite suburb following a similar pattern.<p>Not everything needs to be in that footprint. You can have farms outside of it, for example, and you can have some industry with only fire coverage, no police.<p>But if you build a sprawling low-density city, you will find it is impossible to provide adequate services. You can&#x27;t afford to pay for them. You wind up with high rates of poverty and crime.<p>Missing Middle housing also helps get an area to residential densities that help make public transit make sense. It also helps improve walkability.<p>A lot of the problems we have currently are because America sprawls. These problems likely won&#x27;t be made worse by gently increasing densities. Increasing density in a good way should start to remedy a lot of these issues.