Downtown and Rose Hill: Kirkland’s Corridor of Dense New Development
After Totem Lake, a neighborhood that is experiencing a spree of significant growth, the next notable constellation of new commercial and residential development in...
Uptown Development Regulations Push Affordable Housing And Open Space
Last month, I provided a high-level overview of the Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for land use changes in the Uptown neighborhood. To realize...
Misleading Sightline Articles Undermine Inclusionary Zoning Effort
Seattle is pursuing an inclusionary zoning policy called Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA), similar to successful programs in over 500 municipalities, including Redmond and Federal...
How Housing Markets Aren’t Like Musical Chairs
That The Urbanist disagrees with Sightline Institute about Seattle's Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA) program is hardly news. I'll try not to beat a dead horse....
Mayor Murray Proposes Mandatory Affordable Housing Legislation For Residential Development
Standing along side affordable housing advocates yesterday, Mayor Ed Murray unveiled his latest legislative proposal to tackle rising housing costs that are pushing lower...
Seattle Developers Opting In To Recent MHA Rezones
Seattle recently rezoned large swaths of Downtown and South Lake Union and the University District in the hopes of increasing development capacity for new development...
City Reflects on Seattle’s Affordable Housing Progress in 2019
Our city is facing a housing crisis. Before the onset of the pandemic, when the economy was humming and jobs were bountiful, we had...
Op-Ed: Seattle’s Path to Fund Inclusionary Zoning and Boost Homebuilding
Funded inclusionary zoning unlocks the benefits of inclusionary zoning while offsetting its harms. It’s a path to more market-rate housing and more subsidized affordable housing. While funded inclusionary zoning risks creating a dangerous rift in our pro-housing coalition, amending this policy to allow for funded in-lieu fees would sidestep this issue, argues Ron Davis.