They link to missing middle housing... http://missingmiddlehousing.com/ http://missingmiddlehousing.com/ as if thats the solution. Having lived in the bay for

They link to missing middle housing... http://missingmiddlehousing.com/ http://missingmiddlehousing.com/ as if thats the solution. Having lived in the bay for a long time - there are many "middle" housing places. Just none of them are new. Duplexes, and multiplexes are almost always in the worst areas, because they're not big enough to allow for walking or being close by a lot of services, but are dense enough to be VERY easily annoyed at neighbors. The only thing they're good at is being cheap to build. Townhomes are popping up frequently and offer a slightly nicer version, but I don't honestly see much difference between a townhome without a yard and a more dense mid-rise other than available floorplans. I'm all for more density, but what frequently happens is that they build in moderately dense housing but all the plots are walled off from each other, there's nowhere to walk and so you just have more and more cars and traffic on the road. Full density or bust, I say.