More Housing Means More Diversity
The idea that increasing housing supply creates more housing opportunity and positively affects price is one that many of us accept as axiomatic – if we make more housing people have more choices and prices will stabilize or fall. But how does increased housing supply and availability impact ethnic diversity?We’ve already seen evidence that growth […]
The 652,000th Man: Seattle Tops Growth Chart
If the now retired and apparently found Casey Kasem did a top 40 for growing cities Seattle would be on the chart, holding the number one spot for the fastest growing city and the number 21 spot for overall population size. A Seattle Times blog post yesterday caught a lot of people’s attention, including me; […]
Sally Bagshaw: Yesterday Not Tomorrow
Small-lot legislation passed yesterday with two amendments that made the underlying legislation worse. In many ways the underlying legislation that passed out of the Planning Land Use and Sustainability (PLUS) Committee was positive. Some issues about adjacent lots and lot boundary adjustments were clarified. And, in the end, many new single-family homes will still be […]
