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Unlock Middle Housing with Parking Reform
As long as parking is required, smaller, lower-cost homes are still illegal.March 18, 2024Catie Gouldhttps://www.sightline.org/profile/catie-gould/Senior Researcher, Transportation -
Inside Minnesota’s People over Parking Act, with Chris Meyer
Making the case for statewide elimination of parking mandates.February 2, 2024Catie Gouldhttps://www.sightline.org/profile/catie-gould/Senior Researcher, Transportation -
How Parking Ratios Kill Homes
A string of mistakes in one city shows how easily local rules can turn arbitrary and destructive.December 6, 2023Catie Gouldhttps://www.sightline.org/profile/catie-gould/Senior Researcher, Transportation -
From Vermont to Oklahoma, Legislatures Challenge Parking Mandates
Proposals to reduce overbuilt parking lots are popping up across the United States.July 20, 2023Catie Gouldhttps://www.sightline.org/profile/catie-gould/Senior Researcher, Transportation -
Parking Mandates Are Vanishing Across Oregon
Six months into the pioneering state policy, regulatory costs are falling and projects are springing to life.June 30, 2023Catie Gouldhttps://www.sightline.org/profile/catie-gould/Senior Researcher, Transportation -
Parking Reform Legalized Most of the New Homes in Buffalo and Seattle
Studies from two very different cities showed the same result.April 13, 2023Catie Gouldhttps://www.sightline.org/profile/catie-gould/Senior Researcher, Transportation -
With Flexibility Over Parking, Oregon Homebuilders Get to Work
Tens of thousands of homes are now more buildable, including several projects that local parking mandates had previously killed.February 2, 2023Catie Gouldhttps://www.sightline.org/profile/catie-gould/Senior Researcher, Transportation -
The Vast Potential of Pairing Transit and Homes in Washington State
SB 5466 could support hundreds of thousands of needed new homes closer to where residents work, learn, and recreate.January 18, 2023Dan Bertolethttps://www.sightline.org/profile/danbertolet/Senior Director, Housing and Urbanism -
New Washington Bill Would Legalize More Homes and Businesses by Transit
Eliminating parking mandates is a simple solution to a big problem.January 16, 2023Catie Gouldhttps://www.sightline.org/profile/catie-gould/Senior Researcher, Transportation
The way we design our cities and towns, as well as the modes of transport we use to move through them, can either help or hinder residents’ ability to reduce their carbon footprints. Whether that means unleashing innovative affordable housing solutions, prioritizing spaces for people over spaces for cars and parking, or shifting our transportation thinking away from boondoggle megaprojects, we can shape our communities to fulfill a more sustainable future.
Meet the team
Michael Andersen, Senior Housing Researcher and Transportation Lead. Follow him on Twitter at @andersem.
Catie Gould, Senior Researcher. Follow her at @Citizen_Cate.