More Density in Single-Family? We Tried That Once
Sometimes even I forget that I started my work on Seattle For Growth in an effort to expand supply of single-family housing. Yes, that’s right, my first assignment as it were was to support a solution to the “small-lot problem.” Back in 2012 and 2013 developers had found a way to subdivide single-family lots and build […]
Curb Your Enthusiasm on Single-Family Abolition and Stop Rising Costs and MHA
There has been a lot of breathless hullabaloo about Seattle’s planning commission report pointing out that single-family zoning is a problem. The headline for their report in the Seattle Times was Seattle’s housing crunch could be eased by changes to single-family zoning, City report says. Meanwhile, all sorts of noise has been made about some […]
The Problem With MHA: Seattle For Growth in the Seattle Times
On Friday the Seattle Times printed an editorial I wrote about the problems with Seattle Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA) program, their version of Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning (MIZ). The program cleared a big hurdle before the Thanksgiving holiday when the Hearing Examiner ruled against neighborhood groups opposed to the upzones that are part of MHA. The […]
