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- Jonah Swallows the Whale: The Housing Supply and Demand Debate Continues
- Latest Micro Housing Debate: How Many Sinks Are Enough?
- Urbanism Without Effort? Let It Be!
- Land Use and Dance: Make Me Feel Weird
- Supply Isn’t A Four Letter Word Anymore
- Is There an Apodment Moratorium in the Works?
- Seattle’s Silent Epidemic: The Ferris Firefighter Fantasy
- Bismarck to Burgess: Do Affordable Units Mean Fairness, Equity, and Public Benefit?
- ‘Tis All in Pieces: The Confusing Cost-Price-Ideology Housing Debate
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A better way to pay for lower-priced housing for the poor?
Author’s note: I’ve been struggling about where to put this post. I think it is too speculative to put on the Smart Growth Seattle website, but I do think it’s time to start thinking through how Seattle shares the financial … Continue reading
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Jonah Swallows the Whale: The Housing Supply and Demand Debate Continues
Darrow: But do you believe He made them–that He made such a fish and that it was big enough to swallow Jonah? Bryan: Yes, sir. Let me add: One miracle is just as easy to believe as another. Darrow: Just … Continue reading
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Latest Micro Housing Debate: How Many Sinks Are Enough?
If you went into the Fellowship Hall of the First Baptist Church last night seeking fellowship or edification there was little to be had. Instead it was the scene of the latest set-piece battle in the wider war between NIMBY … Continue reading
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Urbanism Without Effort? Let It Be!
Anyone who knows Chuck Wolfe, author of Urbanism Without Effort, knows he has an agile mind an encyclopedic knowledge of local land use law and lore. But you’ll also know that he is not one who seeks attention by taking … Continue reading
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Land Use and Dance: Make Me Feel Weird
Two things happened yesterday that point where we can go as a city when it comes to growth. The first, in the middle of the day, was a public scourging of a housing type, small, affordable apartments. Erica Barnett wrote … Continue reading
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Supply Isn’t A Four Letter Word Anymore
Something amazing is happening in the discussion about housing and affordability in Seattle: people are starting to talk about how building more housing can lower housing prices. Supply, a word seemingly reserved only for the Master Builders Association, is beginning … Continue reading
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Is There an Apodment Moratorium in the Works?
The rumors are flying: The Seattle City Council is preparing to consider legislation that would shut down, or at least hinder, more development of apodments,* the small affordable apartment dwellings that have been popping up in town. The arguments against … Continue reading
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Seattle’s Silent Epidemic: The Ferris Firefighter Fantasy
Hal Ferris, a local developer, has achieved some notoriety of late with his report on incentive zoning, completed at the behest of Mayoral candidate and current City Councilmember Tim Burgess. But maybe Ferris should be known as the inventor of … Continue reading
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Bismarck to Burgess: Do Affordable Units Mean Fairness, Equity, and Public Benefit?
The basis of social policy is to ensure the welfare and health of a population, specifically the population of a political unit like a country, state, or city. Housing and shelter are commonly accepted as important elements of basic welfare … Continue reading
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‘Tis All in Pieces: The Confusing Cost-Price-Ideology Housing Debate
‘Tis all in pieces, all coherence gone, All just supply, and all relation; Prince, subject, father, son, are things forgot, For every man alone thinks he hath got To be a phoenix, and that then can be None of that … Continue reading
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