Raleigh and Durham Are Leading the Starter Home Revolution

Raleigh, Durham, and Portland show that allowing smaller homes on smaller lots brings prices down fast.

Three small new houses share what was one lot in Durham, North Carolina. Each sold for less than $300,000 in 2023. Photo by the author.

This is part 2 in a series originally published on Greater Greater Washington that discusses how making it easier to build more, smaller houses in the Washington, D.C. area would bring down home prices and help revive the starter home. Read part 1: “How Re-Legalizing Starter Homes Cuts New House Prices.”