AHS Director Charles McCullough was recently featured in a Scripps News piece by Maya Rodriguez on Missing Middle in Arlington. An excerpt from the piece is below:
It's a scene typical of neighborhoods found across the country: single-family homes lining leafy streets.
Yet, in some areas where the demand for housing is high and the stock is low, streets like these could soon take on a different look.
"The fact of the matter is, housing truly is the number one economic issue in the United States," said Charles McCullough, with the Alliance for Housing Solutions. It's one of several groups that pushed for zoning changes in Arlington, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C.
The zoning changes passed unanimously by the county will now allow for the construction of what's known as Missing Middle Housing, in areas where only single-family homes could once be built.
"It's all those houses in between: duplexes, quads, six-plexes, eight-plexes and townhomes," McCullough said. "And it opens up so many great opportunities for our community, more than just allowing communities to be more diverse because we have increased affordability." | Read the article