Initiative targets the Adirondacks' 'missing middle' housing gap

Initiative targets the Adirondacks' 'missing middle' housing gap

State housing programs typically stumble in the Adirondacks, at least in part, because they are too large and too income-restrictive. But a new state and nonprofit partnership seeks to solve those problems under a program targeted to communities of fewer than 10,000 residents and to individuals earning a good wage, but for whom a market-rate house is still out of reach. “Most of the traditional state programs are for low (incomes) and large proj…