Development rights and deed restriction: how codes and regulations can make housing harder

The struggles some elderly residents face when trying to downsize

Older residents in Weston Creek face downsizing challenges due to a lack of suitable homes amid ACT government's Missing Middle housing initiative.

Development rights and deed restriction: how codes and regulations can make housing harder

LAKE TAHOE, Calif./Nev. – Building housing in any area requires a wide spectrum of housing, from transitional to affordable to market-rate and above. But because of pre-existing codes specific to the Tahoe area, building for the “missing middle” or multi-family housing is deeply disincentivized. And with continually rising market rates in the region, it makes it necessary to solidify housing within a certain area median income (AMI), though it o…