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We are for creating more housing of all types, in all neighborhoods, for all levels of income. We are for jobs. We are for opportunity. We are for change. We are for innovation. We are for progress. We are for growth! We are for jobs. We are for opportunity. We are for change. We are for innovation. We are for progress. We are for growth!

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Seattle Doesn’t Need Impact Fees

As if things weren’t bad enough, the Seattle City Council is considering impact fees, the charges applied to new development allowed by State law to off set the impacts of new growth. Largely limited to the suburbs, impact fees add costs to new housing and therefore increase the price of that housing. In a way, […]

Reinventing Microhousing – Come Tour the Yobi Apartments

Event InformationTUE, AUG 25, 2015 AT 5:30 PM Yobi Apartments, Seattle, WA Event Description The Yobi Apartments are a significant step forward in the design of Urban Microhousing. The Yobi was designed from the ground up with the conviction that congregate housing can be a desirable housing option where the architecture can support chance interaction […]

HALA Needs Neighborhood Development Managers to Survive

Here’s a Facebook exchange over at City Builders about my last post about neighborhood process and the recommendations of the Mayor’s Housing Affordability and Livability Agenda (HALA) Committee in which I pointed out that the HALA Committee WAS the public process for future upzones that will create affordable housing: Michael Taylor-Judd NO, the process was NOT […]