• Reintroducing Missing Middle Housing to Vermont

    Vermont Homes for All Toolkit provides statewide support for Missing Middle housing. Utile, Inc. won a 2025 CNU Charter Award in The Region: Metropolis, City and Town category.
    The Vermont Homes for All Toolkit was launched in March of 2024 at a sold-out statewide summit that demonstrated widespread enthusiasm for implementation. The practical publication builds on the state’s 2020 Enabling Better Places: A Zoning Guide for Vermont Neighborhoods, created with the help of...Read more

  • Modeling Missing Middle across an unaffordable region

    Cape Cod Resiliency: Missing Middle changed the perception and implementation of housing on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Union Studio Architecture & Community Design won a 2025 CNU Charter Award in The Region: Metropolis, City and Town category.
    Cape Cod, with its iconic New England character and over 500 miles of coastline, faces a housing crisis that threatens year-round residents who provide the workforce to keep the economy going. Since 2000, many year-round houses have been converted to second homes for vacationers. Cape Cod workers,...Read more

  • The benefits of ‘skinny houses’

    Single-family housing on narrow lots, sometimes called “detached townhouses,” can solve many problems for small-lot, economical, and efficient housing.
    Much attention is paid to “Missing Middle” housing types that meet the needs of diverse households, can fit in walkable neighborhoods, and are often more affordable. Common types include duplexes, four-plexes, townhouses, courtyard dwellings, accessory units, small apartment buildings, and cottages...Read more

  • Bringing back building types: conservation biology, or Jurassic Park?

    How does our world now compare to the conditions under which prehistoric creatures or historic building cultures thrived?
    You have to admit it: vanished species that used to fill the globe have a certain appeal. From the time I was a four-year-old playing with dinosaurs to my current work with Missing Middle Housing, I’ve been fascinated by life from the past and continually asking why certain things seem to have...Read more