Garage apartments have long been a standard feature in Houston, enabled partly by loose regulations and a lot of historical houses in what were once surburbs bu

Garage apartments have long been a standard feature in Houston, enabled partly by loose regulations and a lot of historical houses in what were once surburbs but what are now very central. Like what dwater described, but without the NIMBYism. Even though housing is already cheap in the city, you can be downright skinflint and still get one of these in a walkable neighborhood. Newer opportunistic building is tearing down many of the historical homes, however, and the upper-middle class townhome colonies being put in their place lack this feature.