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Cities Start to Question an American Ideal: A House With a Yard on Every Lot

A number of major U.S. Cities are making a shift in single family zoning amid mounting crises over housing affordability, racial inequality and climate change, and beginning to incorporate more required workforce housing.

Cities Start to Question an American Ideal: A House With a Yard on Every Lot

Residential land zoned for: Single-family zoning is practically gospel in America, embraced by homeowners and local governments to protect neighborhoods of tidy houses from denser development nearby. But a number of officials across the country are starting to make seemingly heretical moves.