Could Tacoma’s Housing Solution Be Hiding in Plain Sight?
According to the City of Tacoma, “the City must plan for 127,000 additional residents and 97,000 jobs by 2040.”
Development of new housing in...
Why Tech Workers Should Care About Housing Issues
Technology industry workers are not apathetic. The industry is known for its passionate defense of civil liberties, the unprecedented scope of the philanthropy of...
Mandatory Housing Affordability Rules the Day in Hearing Examiner Decision
Just before Thanksgiving, housing advocates got some good news as Seattle Hearing Examiner Ryan Vancil released a ruling mostly in favor of the City's Mandatory Housing...
Rorschach Plans: One Seattle Comp Plan is Just a Mess of Dots
The City of Seattle requires your comments on its upcoming Comprehensive Plan Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) by next Monday, August 22. As Natalie Bicknell...
Eliminate the Mortgage Interest Deduction: Part One
For over half a century, America's housing policy has been shaped around a deeply regressive tax deduction. That has to change.
Imagine yourself standing in...
State Sen. Palumbo Plans to Introduce a Minimum Housing Density Bill
This spring, California toyed with passing SB 827, an ambitious zoning preemption bill authored by State Senator Scott Wiener that would have allowed five-story...
Seattle’s Mandatory Housing Affordability Program Is on Course So Far
Last week the Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA) program celebrated two years of being in effect in all multifamily areas of the city. The data...
Midweek Video: The Case Against Single-Family Zoning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajSEIdjkU8E&t=83s
In a relatively short video, Dave Amos, the presenter of City Beautiful, examines the problems of exclusive single-family zoning. He challenges the paradigm, urging...