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Missing middle housing

Lack of medium density housing in North America

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Missing middle housing refers to a lack of medium-density housing in the North American context.

The term describes an urban planning phenomenon in Canada, the United States, Australia and more recent developments in industrialized and newly industrializing countries due to zoning regulations favoring social and/or racial separation over shared living arrangements, and the prevalence of cars allowing car-dependent suburban sprawl.

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The public source identifies “Missing middle housing” as lack of medium density housing in North America. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Missing, middle and housing.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 60-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Missing, middle and housing providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Missing middle housing” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.