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With Flexibility Over Parking, Oregon Homebuilders Get to Work
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Voters Want Fewer Elections: Here’s How to Do That
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Washington Lot Split Bills Would Create Starter Homes, Support Community Stability
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Washington Bill Would Boost In-law Apartments Throughout the State
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Seven Reasons Washington Needs Middle Housing
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Alaska’s Midterm Elections Yield Mixed Results (But in a Good Way)
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Anchorage Assembly Unites to End Parking Mandates
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The Ambitious Housing Plans at the Center of Vancouver, BC’s, October Election
Which North American city will be the first to address its housing crisis with abundant apartments, city-wide? A growing handful of North American states and major cities have been scoring wins in the battle to undo the historic scourge of exclusionary zoning laws, notably Oregon, California, Massachusetts, Portland, Vancouver, BC, Minneapolis, and most recently, Charlotte. These are all relatively incremental changes, though. Laneway cottages here, and duplexes or quadplexes there....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