Microhousing: 6 Charts You Should See
Sean Keeley at Curbed Seattle has a post called 6 Charts that Show Seattle Needs More Micro-Apartments. The post takes some existing charts and puts them together to illustrate the point that more and more people are living alone. That makes it impossible to share rent costs. That means that building new housing that accommodates […]
New Microhousing Proposal Will Boost Rents, Reduce Supply
We’ve said it again, and again, and again, microhousing is working in Seattle to create housing options that people can afford in Seattle’s hottest, most desirable, and fastest growing neighborhoods. Yet, later today (details are here) Councilmember Mike O’Brien will introduce yet another bunch of rules and regulations certain to make microhousing harder to build […]
Study: Renters! There Goes the Neighborhood?
On Saturday morning I took part in a discussion of microhousing on a panel convened as part of the regular monthly meeting of the Seattle Neighborhood Coalition. Even though the discussion was announced with a lengthy and biased history of microhousing in Seattle by opponent Rick Barrett claiming that a “cabal” was “targeting” neighborhoods and avoiding the […]
