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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, there's single-family detached (a house in a yard) and a single-family attached (a house attached to another house, side by side).

A duplex is a row of two houses.

If the units are on top of each other in detached housing, they're double-deckers (or triple-deckers) - but you really only find those in Mew England.

If the units are on top of each other in attached housing, they're "stacked townhouses" (if you're the real estate industry) or "two-over-twos" or basically just two-story condos.

Regardless, should somebody be allowed to buy and tear down an $850,000 one-unit property and build a duplex with two units, each $600,000? Yes, I think so.[/quote]

Except in the areas people are focusing on here it would more likely be tearing down a $850K detached SFH and building a duplex with two $1.3M units rather than a new $2.2M detached house. Builders will make even more money; low-income residents will still live elsewhere.[/quote]

1. Builders will make more money
2. Low-income residents will still live elsewhere
[b]3. There will be more housing for people to live in, in areas where people want to live[/b]

You didn't mention that part. Why?[/quote]

So the sponsor of this bill represents people who would prefer not to live in his district (which already has lots of multi-family units)?

I can sympathize. [/quote]

That is a basic logic fail there, PP. Find a better argument against allowing property owners to build duplexes.[/quote]

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