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Politics and Government

Meeting Tonight, Monday January 13th in Ballard For Feedback On Development

The Department of Planning and Development is holding an initial meeting to take community feedback on development at 1436 NW 62nd St. This development will...

Seattle Housing Reading List – January 12

Fortunately, we aren’t the only ones writing about housing issues. Here’s what we’ve read recently: The Sightline Institute showing how parking drives up the cost...

Seattle’s Free Parking Creates A Housing Cost Problem

How can it be a problem if something is free? It turns out, free and subsidized parking is a problem because it is often only...

Seattle’s Multi-Family Property Tax Exemption Program

What does a city need to ensure residents with different incomes can afford housing? One of Seattle’s strategies is to provide a tax exemption...

Seattle Housing Reading List – January 6th

Here's the roundup of reading we've been doing: Greater Greater Washington covers city policies in Washington DC that promote affordable houses for potential homeowners. The...

Attend A Seattle City Hearing on Lowrise Development

Believe it or not, the city takes a lot of feedback from Seattleites and seriously considers it. January 14th there will be an opportunity...

Who is Mel Watt? He’s here to decide how much money to loan you...

The US Senate confirmed the nomination of Mel Watt to the the Federal Housing Finance Agency. The agency had been without a nominated executive...

Micro-housing isn’t being built in the suburbs. We shouldn’t act like it is.

As I mentioned in my previous post, there are many complaints about micro-housing but they share a common theme. Opponents believe micro-housing will drastically...