New and Old #192

Friday roundup and commentary

Nashville’s One Weird Trick for Reviving the Starter Home, M. Nolan Gray, December 10, 2024

Spoiler in the sub-head: “It turns out that if you make it easy for local developers to build starter homes, they will build a lot of them.”

In cities across the country, duplexes, townhouses, and homes on smaller lots have nearly gone extinct. That is, except for …