Highways are unpleasant for pedestrians and deteriorate adjacent building value, while avenues are compatible with buildings and people. Highways should be reserved for the countryside and be built without strip development. In a neighborhood, affordable housing occurs naturally and in a highly integrated manner. Affordable housing is not segregated and is never clustered in large numbers. A good ratio is one affordable unit to ten market-rate units.
Housing is provided above retail establishments.
This type of dwelling can be provided for the cost of construction alone, because the cost of land can be assigned to the retail component of the building. Garage apartments or cottages are available in the backyards of single family houses. These rental units, of limited size, provide extremely affordable housing that is interspersed with market-rate housing. This also allows teenagers to stay at home and the elderly to live with their families. Current codes monitor only traffic flow, parking counts, the segregation of building use, and the safeguard of wetlands.