Why are the homes that could ease the housing crisis illegal in so many neighborhoods?

In “The Illegal Homes That Could Solve Our Housing Crisis // The Suburban Crisis // Episode 2,” Hannah Kosoff argues that many North American cities force a false choice between detached single-family suburbs and expensive high-rise apartments. The transcript explains the “missing middle” problem: duplexes, row houses, courtyard apartments, mixed-use main streets, and other mid-scale housing types are scarce not because nobody wants them, but because zoning rules often make them illegal across most residential land. It links single-family zoning, land scarcity, developer incentives, and high-rise costs to reduced housing choice and rising prices, while emphasizing that the argument is pro-h-

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