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In June, real-estate investor Justin Smith closed on a duplex in Roscoe, Ill. — about 90 miles west of Chicago — for $250,000.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 17, 2026

A mortgage on a house you can comfortably afford or buying that duplex I mentioned above to earn some rental income are perfectly fine examples of “good” debt.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

“I lived in a duplex with my grandparents and saw them downstairs every morning,” Elsesser says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

Before that, about 10 years ago, he rented a room in a duplex for $333; that same room now rents for $900, he says.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

“We’re living in a duplex now,” my mother explained, and I sensed that we had come up in the world.

From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter

Housing reforms that increase supply, such as allowing smaller lots in new subdivisions, permitting duplexes, townhomes, and backyard cottages on existing lots, and changing zoning laws to allow housing nearer to jobs, are land-use issues.

From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026

Economists say duplexes are the kind of “light-touch density” that allows cities to add more housing for middle-class families without entirely transforming a neighborhood.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026

Last month, Szabo reworked the numbers, concluding that the city was financially capable of covering all types of buildings, not just single-family homes and duplexes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2026

They mostly invested in real estate — two commercial buildings and two residential duplexes.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2025

Others were big two-story duplexes, built as boardinghouses for bachelor miners in the booming 1920’s and later sectioned off as individual family dwellings during the Depression.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam