I have a guest editorial at Publicola that builds on some of my other commentary on how zoning in Seattle tends to reinforce segregation of people and family by race and class. I think the post is a bit challenging because it keeps pushing the wedge between the crowd in Seattle that tends to be he loudest about opposing innovative changes to land use and zoning, white, progressive, single-family homeowners and people genuinely concerned about poverty. This is risky, raising race in the context of housing. But it is important because 

In the end, whether Seattle can make big changes to its liberal status quo—like the startling single family zoning amendments originally proposed by the mayor’s HALA committee to rebalance housing options in Seattle so that zoning rules jibe with growth and diversity rather than exclusion—depends on new voices barging onto the stage, and even being “obnoxious.”