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America's love affair with the single-family house is cooling, but it won't be a quick breakup

  • Written by Robert Parker, Co-Director, Institute for Policy Research and Engagement, University of Oregon
Single-family houses on former farmland west of Des Moines, Iowa. Lynn Betts/USDA

For decades land use regulation across the U.S. has emphasized single-family houses on large lots. This approach has priced many people out of the quintessential American dream: homeownership. It also has promoted suburban sprawl – a pattern of low-density,...

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