Does The Housing Market Work? The Answer Is Obvious But The Question Is Misleading
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...
Required Bicycle Parking and aPodments
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...
Housing Diversions: We Can End Homelessness
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...
Why Urbanism?
Sometimes, when having conversations with fellow environmentalists, I find a disconnect in our understanding of urbanization. In the past, cities were regarded as dirty,...
Let’s stop using the term NIMBY. This is a better description.
In many cities the term NIMBY (not in my back yard) is often lobbed at those opposing changes in their neighborhood. The term is...
Are kitchen sizes more important than housing costs? This indicates Seattle thinks so.
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...
How much should a 2 bedroom apartment cost? It should definitely be less than...
We completed our preliminary research on two-bedroom housing in Seattle. We’ll be publishing a comprehensive report on all unit types in the near future....
Comment for January 14th Public Meeting
My name is Owen Pickford and I’m the founder of Housing for Seattle. I’m here because I’m concerned about the cost of housing in...