Micros Are More Affordable With Many Benefits to Low Income Renters
Ari Webb has been digging into the research literature about unit size and costs. This is a second entry in his review and analysis of what we’ve learned over the last decade about affordability, efficiency, and unit size. A recent trend has emerged in the American housing market: the trend towards micro apartment units. There is […]
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 […]
