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New Washington Bill Would Legalize More Homes and Businesses by Transit
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Seven Reasons Washington Needs Middle Housing
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Washington’s 2023 Middle Housing Bill, Explained
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Sightline Institute’s Giving Tuesday Spotlights
Since 2020, Sightline’s Development team has focused Giving Tuesday, the national day of philanthropy, on highlighting organizations in our local communities. Guided by the principles of community-centric fundraising, we believe that Sightline’s mission of creating a global model of sustainability can only happen when the whole community is strong. In the list below, our staff has suggested some organizations that are close to their hearts. We hope that Sightline supporters...Read more » -
Troutdale Says Tax-Funded Housing Project Has a Problem: Too Many Homes
For years, the City of Troutdale, Oregon, has pushed other government agencies to force the people living in tents along nearby riverbanks to move somewhere else. Situated on the Columbia and Sandy rivers five miles east of Portland, the city of 16,400 that bills itself as the “gateway” to the spectacular Columbia Gorge has far more low-income residents than low-priced homes, according to a city-commissioned analysis. Zillow estimates that average monthly...Read more » -
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 » -
We’re Wildly Underestimating the Potential of Mobile Housing
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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 » -
One in Three Garages Has No Car in It
Over the decade since I moved to Portland, I have lived in seven different places. Three of those homes had off-street garages, but I always parked my car on the curb. Why? One house used the garage as an extra living room. Another driveway had a sharp turn into the garage, making it a hassle to back out of. The last garage had a steep incline to get to it,...Read more » -
Celebrating and Dissecting Municipal Victories for Abundant Housing
The conversation shared below was part of the YIMBYtown 2022 conference, cohosted by Sightline Institute and Portland: Neighbors Welcome.* All politics are local, and nowhere is that more apparent than in campaigns to reform city zoning codes to re-legalize missing middle housing. How are abundant housing advocates building coalitions with other housing advocates, navigating city hall, and finding the votes for zoning reform? What learned lessons can they share with...Read more »