Politico, an online journal of national politics, has a story about microhousing that extensively chronicles it’s rise and fall. What the story conveys, too, is that Seattle was the national leader in housing innovation — emphasis on the word was.

Portland, Los Angeles, Minneapolis have all come calling, looking to Seattle and asking how to undo their minimum size requirement,” Valdez says. “And here’s Seattle, actively trying to institute one. If this goes through, we’ll no longer be in business.”

“It may just have been too far ahead of its time in Seattle.”