Owen Pickford
Owen is a solutions engineer for a software company. He has an amateur interest in urban policy, focusing on housing. His primary mode is a bicycle but isn't ashamed of riding down the hill and taking the bus back up. Feel free to tweet at him: @pickovven.
Housing prices in many cities are on the rise. This trend has been pushing lower income workers out of housing in many cities, including...
In a previous post we established a few important points. First, the housing market isn't a solution to be accepted or thrown out but rather...
It has become a common refrain among anyone paying attention to housing costs that the market simply doesn't work. Many legitimate and important concerns...
The city's draft of microhousing legislation (p. 15) includes a previously proposed regulation for bicycle parking: 1 secure space for every 4 microhousing units.
Seattle currently requires...
Gabriel Metcalfe from SPUR proposes an all-of-the-above approach to solving the housing cost problem in San Francisco. He nails it with the comment:
In the...
If you're not doing anything on Sunday afternoon, you could help make Seattle a safer place for cyclist and pedestrians, help improve access to...
In many cities the term NIMBY (not in my back yard) is often lobbed at those opposing changes in their neighborhood. The term is...
The fourth proposed regulation on micro-housing concerns minimum square footage of communal areas.
The city would like to require a minimum square footage for the...