30+ years ago, Tennessee accidentally created America's most powerful for-sale housing supply tool—enabling denser housing forms with the procedural & financing ease of single-unit. As missing middle reforms proliferate, Nashville gives a glimpse at their promise and pitfalls. bit.ly/Nashville-HPRs
Since the mid-2000s, Nashville, Tennessee, has undergone a housing boom that created thousands of new homeownership opportunities in established urban districts. Among the nation’s 50 largest metropol...
HPRs have transformed Nashville neighborhoods—and its housing market and land use politics. But for all their impact, HPRs are little understood. Metro's Planning Department has never studied their effects; HPRs aren't even coded in property data. Ours is the only look at this transformative tool.