Seattle Times: Want Lower Rents, Build More Housing
The Seattle Times has an editorial that I and many other housing advocates could have written ourselves; the editorial affirms what we’ve been saying over and over again, increasing supply in the face of rising demand will have a positive effect on prices for renters. I have called the stubborn and ideological resistance to this […]
Microhousing: A little empirical data and some perspective
David Neiman has been a guest writer here and a voice of sanity on small-lot legislation and microhousing. Neiman is no bomb thrower, and he has a great reputation at City Hall as a reasonable voice for growth but also for the importance of design. He usually wins me over when I suggest that we should get rid […]
Microhousing: What Happened to the Guiding Principles
At the outset of the City’s effort to understand and regulate microhousing here’s what they said were going to be their guiding principles: Guiding Principles Below are the guiding principles we’ve used to develop these recommendations. The principles respond to citizen expressed concerns, as well as consistency with broader policies in the Mayor’s Housing Strategy, […]
