In his treatise on the city of Houston, One Million Acres and NoZoningZoning, Lars Lerup noted that he found himself “wishing for a different city, not out of disaffection, but out of affection for what the city promises,” describing the city’s unrealized potential as “an Open City, less gated, more public and more like the moist prairie it occupies.” Using Lerup’s words as a framework, this chapter proposes a reconsideration of the single-family home toward housingHousing types that, having been left behind by suburban development and single-family zoningZoning, allow for a more open and diverse city with a rethought connection to both the street and local environment. Using Houston as a case study, this chapter surveys some of the history and conditions that have come to characterize the suburban street—the rise of single-family zoningZoning, the growth of the typical American house, and the dominance of the front lawn as a residential landscape. This sets the context for a recently built work by LOJO ArchitectureArchitecture in Houston, Texas that challenges the spatial models and landscape strategies that have developed around the single-family residence and an idealized notion of the nuclear family. By hybridizing other housingHousing typologies, the project reimagines the relationship between inside vs. outside and public vs. private space. The work inverts the single-family home’s increasing privatization of public programs, creating new levels of porosity and shared space at the street level.