>. Most of the celebrated "missing middle" type neighborhoods are illegal today. You can't build like that anymore. You can't build a single room occupancy apar

>. Most of the celebrated "missing middle" type neighborhoods are illegal today. You can't build like that anymore. You can't build a single room occupancy apartment and share kitchen hookups across units, everyone needs a dedicated kitchen with a full stove and fridge to live apparently Amen, something like my first apartment,a $600 place where you didn't have a stove, didn't have a parking space and definitely didn't have a balcony, would be illegal to build. I strongly suspect this is to drive poorer people out of certain neighborhoods. I saw a fantastic Reddit post once we're a building architect outlined all the stupid reasons. You can't build affordable housing in LA. Fighting years and years of legal challenges, having to have a minimum amount of outdoor space for each unit or whatever . Whatever . Are any cities in America building compact transit friendly living space? I really want to travel more and see how other countries do it.