A recent housing gap analysis completed alongside the initial draft of the city’s new strategic housing plan by an outside consultant firm found that creating more “missing middle” is one potential key easing the housing burden across Evanston. A chart in the housing gap analysis showing income disparities among racial groups. Lowe said new housing for moderate-income households, including workforce housing, would have a “significant impact” on addressing the city’s housing challenges. It was set to diagnose the city’s “market mismatch” and measure the existing conditions of the city’s housing market to help set future goals. While Lowe said his housing gap analysis was not a “build-to quota,” the city did set a goal in the housing plan itself to add up to 5,000 new housing units by 2035.