Where Has All the (Affordable) Housing Gone? Everywhere.
Last week I responded to Chris Persons at the Capitol Hill Housing Improvement Program (CHHIP) who claimed that without inclusionary zoning, Seattle would end up a segregated city. I’ve offered Persons a chance to post a response here, without any editing, to keep the dialogue going (he hasn’t responded). And I have said to him […]
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 […]
