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Part of the push for changing zoning is supposedly to build more family-friendly multifamily housing. For this you need larger units, and you need them designed for family life (i.e. bedrooms near each other but away from main living space, living spaces conducive to small children, building design that makes sense for people with kids and strollers, etc.) But developers have limited interested in serving this part of the market. The trend is toward smaller units, even micro units, aimed at singles and DINKs. The assumption is that families won't live in apartments, they'll move into SFH once they have kids. But increasingly it's hard for many families to afford SFHs (whether because close in housing is too expensive, or because further out housing requires an expensive and time consuming commute that also isn't conducive to having kids). So there genuinely is a lack of affordable housing for families, even if they are open to living in smaller homes or in multi-family housing.

- Signed, a parent who lives in an apartment and has no issue with that.[/quote]

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