More Family Housing: Change Values, Change Zoning

Earlier this year the Seattle Planning Commission released a Family Sized Housing Action Agenda calling for renewed efforts to create affordably priced housing for families in the City. Just recently A-P Hurd pointed out at the Atlantic’s City Lab blog that there are two regulatory hurdles that, when taken together, almost ensure that larger housing […]

City Council: Can’t Find a House? Move to Oklahoma!

We nicknamed our video “they’re making it worse” for a reason. When Seattle City Council fails to do the right thing, good people move to….Oklahoma! The City has already lost a basketball team to the Sooner State, but now we’re losing real people who can’t find a place to live. Here’s a passage from a recent story in the […]

Why Small Houses Matter

I recently watched an episode of the FYI Network‘s new small-home reality show, Tiny House Nation, a show hosted by renovation experts John Weisbarth and Zack Giffin. Weisbarth and Giffin travel the country helping families design and build tiny homes. The homes can be in the city or the country, mobile or stationary, but they […]