The 'Missing Middle': Denver-area mayors examine duplexes as affordable housing solution
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and last updated 2021-05-05 08:41:26-04
DENVER â In the middle of an affordable housing crisis, the "Missing Middle" of housing, duplexes, triplexes, condos and town homes are being examined as one potential solution.
More than a dozen mayors from across the Denver metro met Tuesday with business leaders and housing experts to hear from the mayor of Minneapolis.
"It's something that I campaigned on when I ran for mayor, and I'm proud to say it's something that we got done," said Mayor Jacob Frey, who said last year Minneapolis became the first major U.S. city to ban single-family zoning that had locked up half the city's land and contributed to racial inequities. "We have maps that quite literally say that our northern section of the city should be explicitly for Blacks and Jews. And then what happened is the Civil Rights Act passed and all of the things that we used to do explicitly, all of the things that used to be explicitly racist, the city then started doing implicitly through the zoning code."