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Homes on Wheels Are Filling a Big Gap in Portland

Three personal stories show how these small, affordable, flexible homes provide big solutions for families.
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How Cascadia Can Maintain Its Heat Pump Momentum

Three tools to help the region’s low-income families afford more efficient heating and cooling systems—even as public dollars dry up.
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Who Owns a Utility Matters Less for Climate Than the Rules They Play By

Advocates can focus on fast-tracking policies that are already working well elsewhere.
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Seattleites Keep Their Model Campaign Finance Reform Program

City voters renewed funding for their iconic democracy vouchers.
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“If One Path Is Blocked, Nature Will Find Another”

A Q&A with award-winning author John Vaillant on our new fire weather reality.
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Oregon Decides It Was a Mistake to Let Cities Ban Homes

Two new bipartisan laws suggest that for Oregonians to afford to live where and how they want, state-level zoning works better.
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How Cascadia Can Maintain Its Heat Pump Momentum

Three tools to help the region’s low-income families afford more efficient heating and cooling systems—even as public dollars dry up.
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Who Owns a Utility Matters Less for Climate Than the Rules They Play By

Advocates can focus on fast-tracking policies that are already working well elsewhere.
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“If One Path Is Blocked, Nature Will Find Another”

A Q&A with award-winning author John Vaillant on our new fire weather reality.
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The 1,083-Page Environmental Assessment That Ignores Climate Change and Tribes

The Northwest needs a better way to evaluate power line projects.
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Northwest Data Centers: A Climate Test and Potential Opportunity

A Sightline report finds that—with the right policies—the region could harness data center demand for clean power to decarbonize the broader economy.
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Ending Subsidies for New Gas Hook-Ups Can Save Cascadians Millions

Line extension allowances are on their way out, and regulators can finish the job.
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Seattleites Keep Their Model Campaign Finance Reform Program

City voters renewed funding for their iconic democracy vouchers.
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British Columbians Could Enjoy Better City Elections

If the province would let them.
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Seattle’s Democracy Vouchers Are Popular Across the Political Spectrum

With candidates of all political stripes taking advantage of the city’s small-dollar campaign program, Seattleites themselves become the real winners.
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For Juneau, There’s a Better Way than Cascade Voting

With election reform on the horizon in Alaska’s capital city, single transferable vote is a safe and tested route for multi-winner ranked elections.
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Democracy Vouchers Are a Bargain

August’s levy renewal offers Seattleites proven benefits to democracy for a low price. 
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In Seattle Elections, Dark Money Follows Competition, Not Democracy Vouchers

Research finds independent spending is up in cities with and without public financing for local campaigns—and democracy vouchers are delivering on their people power promise.
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Four Ways Context Matters for Wildfire News Coverage

Reporters can help people see the forest, even when the trees are on fire.
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Blazing a Trail: The Vital Role of Wildfire Hazard Maps

Sophisticated and high-resolution maps such as Oregon’s are essential tools for thriving in a fiery future.
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Oregon’s Land Use Law Creates Wildfire-Adapted Communities

Bend residents have shown us how.
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The Best Wildfire Solution We’re Not Using

Three ways to curb the sprawl that traps us on a wildfire treadmill.
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We’re Stuck on a Wildfire Treadmill

And to escape, we need more fire, not less.
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Montana’s Housing Miracle Strikes Twice

Bipartisan efforts won a string of bills for more homes, lower costs, and less red tape for Montanans—with lessons for other states.
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Washington Housing Bills to Watch in 2025 

More than two dozen bills aim to unlock great neighborhoods, greater affordability, and less red tape for Washingtonians.
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The 4 Big Reasons Why States Should Ditch Parking Mandates

Parking reform unlocks more homes and great neighborhoods, while cutting red tape and excess asphalt, sprawl, and pollution.
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The Next Big Thing in Low-Cost Housing

Meet MDUs, a low-cost, fast-build, flexible solution for more homes now.
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Washington Bill Would Cap Excessive Parking Mandates Around the State

More trees, senior living, daycares, and lower-cost housing for Washington cities and towns—and less pavement.
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Worried about Infrastructure Costs? Then End the Apartment Ban

Allowing more homes, in all shapes and sizes, makes it easier and cheaper for communities to tackle infrastructure challenges.
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How to Talk About Parking Reform—and Win

Our road-tested messaging guide to gain more great neighborhoods and the homes we need, and to kick excess asphalt to the curb.
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Video: Housing Solutions Are Climate Solutions

In 90 seconds, how zoning for more home choices in our cities helps affordability and cuts climate pollution.
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Poll: Washington Voters Out Ahead Of Local Leaders On Zoning Reforms

Statewide survey shows broad voter receptivity—across partisan, demographic, and geographic lines—to zoning changes to allow more homes like duplexes and small apartment buildings.
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Video: Zoning for All Kinds of Affordable Homes

Cities need all kinds of affordability, both subsidized housing and naturally affordable, modest-sized, market-rate homes.
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Recipes for Successful Abundant Housing Communications

In this panel discussion, three expert communicators share how they’ve crafted compelling narratives, engaged coalitions, and garnered press attention for housing affordability and climate policy.
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How to Tear Down the Invisible Walls in Your City’s Zoning Code

10 tips for zoning reformers from a town that legalized housing.
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Housing + Cities

Parking, zoning, sprawl, pollution, property rights, commutes, rents, and home prices—they all intersect where a legacy of exclusionary rules and regulations restrict homebuilding and fuel our housing shortage. Hear from Dan Bertolet, Catie Gould, Michael Andersen, and others exploring solutions for low-carbon, affordable, accessible cities and towns.  

Climate + Energy

From electrification to decarbonization, carbon pricing to grid upgrades, Emily Moore and team decode the policy solutions to power a greener, more equitable, and robust economy for the region’s future.  

Democracy + Elections

Protecting voter choice and voice with clear-eyed, independent analysis and models of success—Alan Durning, Jay Lee, Shannon Grimes, Al Vanderklipp, and others send you the latest elections solutions and opportunities, from Alaska to Oregon and inland to Montana and Idaho. 

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