'Missing middle' competition offers residential housing solutions

Back-to-backs, brownstones, bungalow courts, clustered housing, plexes, maisonettes, row-houses, stacked towns and six-packs.
Throughout the world, these low-density multi-housing forms provide affordable homes for millions of households. However, in British Columbia, most of our housing is either single-family homes or apartments.
As a result, architects and planners are increasingly referring to these other “gentle density” housing solutions as “the missing middle”.
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