Sunday Video: Vienna’s Radical Idea? Affordable Housing For All
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41VJudBdYXY
Bloomberg Quicktake/CityLab explores how Vienna is tackling affordable housing for all in the city. Mike Eliason, syndicated columnist of The Urbanist, offers his perspective...
What’s In a Name: Ending Exclusionary Zoning
Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda is taking heat from both sides after introducing legislation recognizing Seattle’s diverse neighborhoods in a bid to lay the groundwork to...
The Benefits of Auctioning Off Development Rights
In an era of tight city budgets, legal limits on taxing authority, and expensive problems, it is time for Seattle to get creative. We...
What Upzoning Can Do
"The solution: Americans, together and all at once, would have to stop thinking about their homes as an investment," Conor Dougherty wrote in The Upshot this past...
Goodbye, Single-Family Zoning… Hello Neighborhood Residential Zoning?
A proposed name change could kick off the fight to end exclusionary zoning in Seattle.
So, what's exactly in a name? Juliet Capulet pondered this...
‘Home In Tacoma’ Advances with Recommendation to Eliminate Single-Family Zoning
Tacoma has taken another step in its land use reform process to equitably house people and undo a legacy of exclusionary zoning. Home In...
Council Passes Downtown Rezones, SEPA Infill Modifications
Two major land use bills were passed by the Seattle City Council on Monday. Large swaths of Downtown and South Lake Union will receive...
U District Is a Hive of Construction Activity as Light Rail Arrives
Northgate Link, which just opened as of today, has already transformed the neighborhoods surrounding the three stations on the extension. Northgate Station still does...