{"id":15788,"date":"2016-02-25T10:32:14","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T17:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=15788"},"modified":"2016-02-25T13:32:31","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T20:32:31","slug":"rooflines-seeking-true-multifamily-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=15788","title":{"rendered":"Rooflines | Seeking True \u201cMultifamily\u201d Housing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15800\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/aaronburden\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15800\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15800\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15800\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/swings-sm.jpg\" alt=\"Image by Aaron Burden from Unsplash (https:\/\/unsplash.com\/aaronburden)\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/swings-sm.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/swings-sm-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/swings-sm-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15800\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image by Aaron Burden from Unsplash (https:\/\/unsplash.com\/aaronburden)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;City planners and real estate professionals use the term &#8216;multifamily&#8217; to describe apartment and condominium buildings. But is there a greater misnomer in our field? Most of our nation\u2019s apartment stock is comprised of one- and two-bedroom units better suited for singles and households without children than for families with children. Homes with three or more bedrooms are a decreasing share of multi-unit properties. According to recent Census data, the construction of three-plus bedroom units fell to 12 percent of total multifamily construction in 2014\u2014its lowest share since 1991. In the 25 largest cities, family-sized three-bedroom units comprise just 5 percent of the non-regulated rental market, according to a recent analysis in Governing. Given the small share of family-sized units in many large cities, it is not surprising that the same analysis found that most for-sale three-bedroom units are priced out of reach for young and modest-income families in many large cities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire post at Rooflines: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/rooflines.org\/4357\/seeking_true_multifamily_housing\/\">Seeking True \u201cMultifamily\u201d Housing<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;City planners and real estate professionals use the term &#8216;multifamily&#8217; to describe apartment and condominium buildings. But is there a greater misnomer in our field? Most of our nation\u2019s apartment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":15800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[44,144,958],"class_list":["post-15788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more-articles","tag-affordable-housing","tag-housing","tag-multifamily-housing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15788"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15801,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15788\/revisions\/15801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}