STATE and CITY PLANNERS define MIDDLE HOUSING as housing types that fall between single-family homes and large apartment complexes. Think of them as “missing options” in many neighborhoods—homes that are modest in scale but provide more choices for how people live.

 

Examples of middle housing include:

DUPLEXES, TRIPLEXES, FOURPLEXES, FIVEPLEXES, and SIXPLEXES

TOWNHOMES

COTTAGES, ADU'S, etc.​

These options are often described as “gentle density”—slightly more compact than a detached home but far smaller than mid-rise or high-rise apartments.

 

Cities across Washington, including Bellingham and Bellevue, have begun rewriting zoning rules to allow more of these housing types in traditionally single-family neighborhoods. The promise is affordability, flexibility, and more walkable communities. But the reality MIDDLE HOUSING is built on DECEPTION, OBFUSCATION, and MISDIRECTION.

 

States and city planners have a THREE PHASE plan to destroy the single family neighborhoods:

 

FIRST PHASE is creating the term MIDDLE HOUSING and is presented as a "NEW FORM" of housing, which is just MULTI-FAMILY RENTALS minus APARTMENTS. It is not affordable, nor POSSIBLE to own just one unit in any building, especially for less than the cost of a detached single family home now. 

SECOND PHASE is removing the protections of the single family zoning to allow ANYTHING, ANYWHERE, with NO DENSITY restrictions!

THIRD PHASE is to convince the public that having a car is a BAD THING. They are removing all PARKING MINIMUMS for new construction with BLATENT DISREGARD to the dangers of all the parking going into the streets. Starting with the term MIDDLE HOUSING which . often comes with debates about parking, fees, neighborhood character, and whether new homes are truly affordable.

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The RESULT is that there is NOTHING AFFORDABLE with MIDDLE HOUSING, except the MASSIVE FEES that the cities and states will collect for putting 12 plexes into a single lot which used to allow just one home.