Growing Social Housing in Seattle
Social housing composes 8.6% of Seattle's housing stock, which is well below many peer cities around the globe. Some standouts are far ahead. In...
Sound Transit Puts Equitable TOD and Bathroom Policy Reform Front and Center
Sound Transit is making good on a policy directive to expand bathroom access to facilities and equitable transit-oriented development (TOD) commitments in Seattle. The...
Kenmore Seeking to Expedite and Incentivize Affordable Housing Projects
Kenmore could be on the cusp of passing a package of amendments that streamline the permitting process for affordable housing projects and provide a...
Sunday Video: America’s Worsening Homelessness Crisis
https://youtu.be/LduaiX0yj6E
Bloomberg Quicktake highlights America’s growing homelessness struggles and ways that could lessen it.
Social Housing Skeptics Are Full of It
Last week was a weird week for public housing. On Tuesday, Substack pundit Matt Yglesias opined that public housing doesn't solve a single problem...
National Social Housing Plan Urges Creation of 12 Million of Homes
Since the Reagan administration, the federal government has gotten out of the game of producing social housing itself. A new report titled "The Case...
Social Housing Now: Washington State Should Build 100,000 Homes
We are facing the twin crises of housing affordability and climate change, but solutions at the state level appear too timid while the federal...
Housing Policy Lessons From Vienna: Part I
Is Stadt Wien the model for US urban housing policy?
Part I: Paying for housing
This is a two-part series on housing policy in Vienna and...