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Take a cue from the boomers: Fix the housing crisis with smaller starter homes

Take a cue from the boomers: Fix the housing crisis with smaller starter homes

Boomers owe their very existence to an explosion in starter homes after World War II. But thanks to NIMBYs, the starter home of the baby-boom era has largely been banned, and affordability has suffered.