What a street looks like 39 years after legalizing fourplexes

When people who live in low-density areas think about re-legalizing duplexes, triplexes and fourplexes, they wonder, understandably, about what exactly might happen to their neighborhood. One of the last few neighborhoods to fill in before Portland’s 1959 ban on middle housing, it was built as a middle-class area, so 10 of the homes in the image above are actually in older duplexes. This duplex went up in 2004:

This triplex in 2008 (it’s by far the largest new building, and actually about 50 percent larger than anything Portland’s local zoning reform would allow on low-density lots of this size):

But most homes, as you can tell, have stayed pretty much as they were.

Source: www.sightline.org