Yesterday’s post on Nick Licata making our point about what I call “disincentive zoning” marks a milestone for Smart Growth Seattle: it is our 100th post. Mr. Sousa? Are you ready? Let’s review some statistics.

Over the course of the 100 posts our top referrers have been Facebook, Reddit, the Seattle Transit Blog, Twitter, Publicola, Sightline, and, ironically, the One Home Per Lot website (from a page called “The Problem.”) And it probably shouldn’t be a surprise that the biggest clicks on our site are mostly the same sites.

The most read post of all time was “The Rents They Are a Changing,” with 4783 hits and that post, not surprisingly, is our number one post. Here are the rest in order:

1. The Rents They Are a Changing
2. This is Where I Live: What’s Not to Love?
3. Think housing is expensive? Just wait until it’s affordable
4. DPD Recommendations on Microhousing: Why Subject a Good Thing to a Bad Process?
5. More Evidence: Increased Housing Supply Leads to Lower Prices
6. “You May Not Like My House, But I love It!”
7. Look! It’s Still Happening! NIMBY Intolerance
8. You’ve Heard of Backlash. Ready for Frontlash?
9. Other People’s Housing: Seattle’s Debate Continues
10. The Inconvenient Truth About Workforce Housing

What I like about what we’ve done on the blog since I started full time is that we’ve had (or tried to have) at least one new post a day. There have been days, like yesterday, when we’ve had as many as three. My hope is to continue to keep the site active and interesting.

More importantly that posting every day, we’ve had great guest posts, some of which are in the top ten. I’m especially fond of “You May Not Like My House, But I Love It!” and “This is Where I Live: What’s Not to Love” genuine statements of pride from small-lot owners who put up with angry neighbors before finally being accepted for who they are and their fantastic houses.

Also we’ve tried to add strong data into sometimes truly ugly debates and arguments with very unhappy and angry people about how our city is changing. “The Inconvenient Truth About Workforce Housing” by Dan Bertolet is an important document in the long argument about what problem we think we’re solving when we tax something we say we want more of, housing. My incessant posts about supply and demand might annoy those of you who get it, but it’s a point that has to be made again and again with numbers; more housing means lower prices.

We’ve also pushed forward our views from people actually build things about why policy proposals work or don’t work. In the microhousing debate, this blog is where you will find the best information about why the efforts by the Department of Planning and Development are going to make things worse for tenants, not better. We’ve pointed out how design review just adds costs and meaningless process to a good thing, microhousing.

And we’ve held elected officials accountable for what they say and what they do. This will continue to be a space where people who say they want the best for the City will have to stand up to scrutiny. Are they using logic, data, and good policy tools or are they trying to please what one guest poster called, “the pitchfork mob.”

So here’s to another 100 posts!