One of North America’s Boldest Housing Initiatives Has Reached Its End: Did It Work?
What the ambitious Seattle HALA plan reveals about building affordable, low-carbon cities.
Region: British Columbia
Yes, We Can Make Cities Affordable and Low-Carbon. It Requires Smart Strategy
What’s the best political blueprint for making housing abundant in walkable neighborhoods?
2019 Was the Year That Fracking Fell Apart
If you’re desperate for good news about climate change, it helps if you have a sense of schadenfreude. Probably the merriest fossil fuel stories of 2019 show the fracking industry on the verge of a meltdown. Despite a raft of accounting gimmicks, the industry wasn’t able to hide the fact that it was drowning in … Read more
2019 Sightline Report Update: Mapping BC’s LNG Proposals
Editor’s note: The report below is the second update of an original Sightline report published in March 2017. Over the past decade, Oregon and Washington have fended off several proposals to build enormous fracked fuel and petrochemical terminals on their coasts. But just to the north, British Columbia’s political leaders have taken the opposite tack, … Read more
We Need Homes of All Sizes, but Our Main Shortage Is of Small Ones
Longer, healthier lives mean more 1-2 person households. Our housing market is straining to respond, and we should let it.
California Looks to a Future beyond Single-Detached House Zoning
Will Washington follow suit with statewide ADU reform?
It Shouldn’t Take a Decade to Re-legalize Duplexes
Loosening zoning to allow more homes is a daunting task for cities. States can help.
The Boeing 737 MAX Fiasco and the Future of Autonomous Vehicles
On the one-year anniversary of the first 737 MAX crash, senators and representatives grilled CEO Dennis Muilenburg for nine hours at public hearings on Capitol Hill about how Boeing’s mistakes contributed to 346 deaths. As they forced Muilenburg to concede to design and management errors, policymakers built a case for more regulation of Boeing’s advanced … Read more
The Role of Community Land Trusts in Cascadia’s Quest for Affordable Housing
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The housing crisis that plagues most major cities always puts renters on the losing side as they face increasing housing instability. Rising rents and affordable housing shortages are pushing lower-income residents out of their neighborhoods in favor of the rich. One of the biggest housing policy challenges in growing cities is how to invest in … Read more