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UPDATED: 50 Housing Bills and How They Fared in Olympia
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Hey, Olympia! If You Let Them, Cities Could Double Turnout in Local Elections
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Seven Reasons Washington Needs Middle Housing
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Alaska Primary Voters Had More Choice in 2022
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Washington Should Move All Elections to Even Years
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Northwest States Need to Build New Power Lines, Fast
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A Guide to Portland’s Charter Change
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A Guide to Alaska’s November 2022 Election
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When Cities Switch To One-Winner Council Districts, Housing Growth Plummets
A new 11th-hour idea for rewriting the rules of Portland’s city government has several possible flaws, but here’s one: statistically speaking, it’d be likely to worsen the city’s housing shortage. The proposal was publicly floated in a media interview three weeks ago by its loudest advocate, city Commissioner Mingus Mapps. Mapps’s idea, according to The Oregonian/OregonLive: to scrap the concept hammered out by a city-appointed citizen commission over the last...Read more » -
Can Anchorage Bring Back the Triplex?
There’s not much consumer choice in the Anchorage housing market. Single-detached homes, or “one-plexes,” are the norm, even though residents want more options to accommodate their different life stages and budgets. So, some of Alaska’s top architects and builders teamed up with Fairview residents in a neighborhood design contest to imagine a future inspired by historic housing norms, when cities allowed a wider array of homes in American neighborhoods. In...Read more »
