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Seattle Builds Lots of New Apartments, but Not So Many Parking Spots
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Will Seattle Suppress a Key Parking Fix?
This is a convoluted story about an 11-page memo on parking meters. It seems a trifle at first—an obscure bureaucratic kerfuffle. But it’s not. The subject of the memo is a surprisingly large opportunity for affordable housing in Cascadia, and the memo—an exercise in obstructionism—reveals much about why progress on building desperately needed homes is infuriatingly slow. It also points to a chance still available to put housing for people ahead of...Read more » -
Cities Finally Realize They Don’t Need to Require So Much Damn Parking
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Portland Seeks Peace Through Parking Permits
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Portland May Offer a Parking Win-Win-Win
Here in Southeast Portland, many of my neighbors are concerned about parking. In particular, they worry that new residents in the apartment buildings popping up along SE Division and other major corridors will park on the street, taking spots away from neighbors living in single-family homes. When I suggest that the solution to their dilemma is to charge for curb parking, they look at me like I am crazy. The...Read more » -
No Parking Here
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It’s Time to Cap and Trade Parking Permits
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How the Cost of Other People’s Parking Drives Up Your Rent
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How is Parking like a Sandwich?
Sightline is releasing a new report today—Who Pays for Parking?—documenting the hidden parking subsidies that raise the cost of housing in greater Seattle. In a nutshell, the study finds that “cheap” parking really means expensive rents—which makes parking reform a high priority for housing affordability. Imagine, just for a moment, that you live in an apartment building that offers a special lunch deal. Every morning the landlords put out a...Read more » -
Who Pays for Parking?
How the oversupply of parking undermines housing affordability.Read more »