King County’s Comprehensive Plan Major Update Finds Approval
The Metropolitan King County Council met last week to discuss and vote on the County's Comprehensive Plan major update, a process that occurs once...
Hearing Examiner Rules Seattle Must Do EIS, Delays Backyard Cottage Law
In a blow to the Housing Affordability & Livability Agenda (HALA), Hearing Examiner Sue Tanner issued a ruling that the City of Seattle must conduct an...
Major Affordable Housing Investment Announced Near Future Northgate Link Station
In a major announcement yesterday, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray and King County Executive Dow Constantine revealed that an agreement to spend $20 million on...
Community Ownership Event Energizes Housing Advocates
Right before snow coated the Emerald City's streets on Thursday, more than a hundred housing advocates gathered at the Central Library to hear a panel...
Don’t Renegotiate The Grand Bargain, Pass M2 Upzones To Unlock 11% Requirement
When I criticized Sightline's framing of Seattle's Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA) program, a few people suggested I was providing "fodder to NIMBYs." I'm not...
Reminder: Building Affordability Through Community Ownership Event On Thursday
In Seattle’s efforts to address the housing affordability crisis, community land trusts and other forms of community ownership have been in large part overlooked....
Mayor Submits MHA-C Tweaks
Further amendments to Seattle’s Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA) program could be on the way. Mayor Ed Murray transmitted a package of changes to bring...
Seattle Got Inclusionary Zoning Mostly Right, Sightline Got The Economics Mostly Wrong
On Tuesday Sightline Institute's Executive Director Alan Durning and Senior Researcher Dan Bertolet published a long meditation on inclusionary zoning (IZ) economics that misrepresented...