A Win for Affordable Housing? Not so fast.
By reading the headline of Ansel Herz’s story in The Stranger back in July about an apartment building in the Central District, you’d think that the scrappy Socialist party lead by the Tenants Union and Councilmember Kshama Sawant looked a greedy developer square in the eye and that the developer blinked. A private buyer had […]
New Microhousing Proposal Will Boost Rents, Reduce Supply
We’ve said it again, and again, and again, microhousing is working in Seattle to create housing options that people can afford in Seattle’s hottest, most desirable, and fastest growing neighborhoods. Yet, later today (details are here) Councilmember Mike O’Brien will introduce yet another bunch of rules and regulations certain to make microhousing harder to build […]
More Family Housing: Change Values, Change Zoning
Earlier this year the Seattle Planning Commission released a Family Sized Housing Action Agenda calling for renewed efforts to create affordably priced housing for families in the City. Just recently A-P Hurd pointed out at the Atlantic’s City Lab blog that there are two regulatory hurdles that, when taken together, almost ensure that larger housing […]
