Seattle Housing Reading List – January 12
Fortunately, we aren’t the only ones writing about housing issues. Here’s what we’ve read recently:
The Sightline Institute showing how parking drives up the cost...
Seattle’s Free Parking Creates A Housing Cost Problem
How can it be a problem if something is free? It turns out, free and subsidized parking is a problem because it is often only...
Seattle’s Multi-Family Property Tax Exemption Program
What does a city need to ensure residents with different incomes can afford housing? One of Seattle’s strategies is to provide a tax exemption...
Seattle Housing Reading List – January 6th
Here's the roundup of reading we've been doing:
Greater Greater Washington covers city policies in Washington DC that promote affordable houses for potential homeowners. The...
Attend A Seattle City Hearing on Lowrise Development
Believe it or not, the city takes a lot of feedback from Seattleites and seriously considers it.
January 14th there will be an opportunity...
Who is Mel Watt? He’s here to decide how much money to loan you...
The US Senate confirmed the nomination of Mel Watt to the the Federal Housing Finance Agency. The agency had been without a nominated executive...
Micro-housing isn’t being built in the suburbs. We shouldn’t act like it is.
As I mentioned in my previous post, there are many complaints about micro-housing but they share a common theme. Opponents believe micro-housing will drastically...
Should we allow micro-housing in single family zoned areas? Should college students be allowed...
After Seattle’s Department of Planning and Development proposed regulations for defining what qualifies as micro-housing (as discussed in my previous post), it then proposed...