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		<title>Put a Friendly Face on Gentle Density</title>
		<link><![CDATA[https://www.sightline.org/2019/07/22/put-a-friendly-face-on-gentle-density/]]></link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2019 20:03:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Use our open-source photo library to help familiarize, and normalize, "missing middle" homes. | Most people believe in principle in expanding opportunity and affordability. This holds true for people we&#8217;ve talked to who live in Seattle’s neighborhoods of mostly single-detached housing. For example, respondents in our focus groups said they want to live in welcoming, affordable, and diverse communities, where people of all incomes can afford to live close to friends, family, transit, jobs, schools, and parks.  But sometimes in practice, especially when local...]]></description>
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		<title>Where Seattle’s Environmental Impact Statement Has Landed for Backyard Cottages</title>
		<link><![CDATA[https://www.sightline.org/2018/10/05/where-seattles-environmental-impact-statement-has-landed-for-backyard-cottages/]]></link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2018 12:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[The final recommendation has a lot of good, a little bad, and a few more hurdles to clear. | On Thursday, Seattle published its Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) on loosening regulations on mother-in-law apartments and backyard cottages&#8212;accessory dwelling units (ADUs) in wonkspeak. The endorsed set of rule changes gets most things right, but also comes up short in a few ways. If you haven’t been following the drama, this is the latest chapter of Seattle’s effort to make it easier to build ADUs and help address the city’s...]]></description>
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		<title>Weekend Reading 10/13/17</title>
		<link><![CDATA[https://www.sightline.org/2017/10/13/weekend-reading-101317/]]></link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Oct 2017 13:21:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Clean energy discoveries, tools to teach without omitting tribal perspective, gerrymanderproofing, and lots more. | Aven This week, two different groups of scientists have found two different, currently undeveloped sources of renewable energy that have the potential to power large chunks of civilization single-handedly. One study, led by the Carnegie Institute for Science, calculated the amount of off-shore wind energy theoretically available over the open oceans, finding enough there to power the entirety of human civilization. There are technical limitations to covering that much of...]]></description>
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		<title>How Seattle Killed Micro-housing, Again</title>
		<link><![CDATA[https://www.sightline.org/2017/03/20/how-seattle-killed-micro-housing-again/]]></link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Mar 2017 13:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[A partial reprieve... denied. | Last year, I described how Seattle killed micro-housing through a series of legislative actions and administrative policy shifts that enacted a virtual ban on congregate micro-housing, pushed developers to build a larger and pricier form of micro-housing known as Small Efficiency Dwelling Units (SEDUs), inflated the size of SEDUs through new rules on minimum unit sizes, and denied SEDUs access to incentive programs that would make their rents more affordable....]]></description>
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		<title>To Build 1,764 New Homes This Year, Seattle Demolished… Just 21</title>
		<link><![CDATA[https://www.sightline.org/2016/08/17/seattle-1764-new-homes-21-demolitions-in-2016-displacement/]]></link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2016 13:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[A before-and-after photo tour of Seattle’s real demolition trend. | The story is deeply embedded in popular perceptions of the modern city: modest, low-cost apartments succumb to the wrecking ball to make way for ritzy highrises, putting working-class residents out on the street. The displacement caused by demolitions of low-cost housing can be devastating to poorer families and their communities, and urban advocates and policymakers widely agree that minimizing displacement is a critical public policy goal. In the case of...]]></description>
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		<title>Displacement: The Gnawing Injustice at the Heart of Housing Crises</title>
		<link><![CDATA[https://www.sightline.org/2016/08/10/displacement-the-gnawing-injustice-at-the-heart-of-housing-crises/]]></link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2016 13:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[What can we actually do about it? | In Seattle and other fast-growing cities across Cascadia and beyond, bitter stories of people priced out of their homes and of affordable buildings torn down for new construction are all too familiar. The sense of injustice we feel about these stories is well justified. Sightline recently assembled focus groups&#8212;random samples of long-time Seattle residents&#8212;to talk about the housing crunch, and strong feelings about housing costs ran to a fever pitch...]]></description>
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		<title>Exclusionary Zoning Robs Our Cities of Their Best Qualities</title>
		<link><![CDATA[https://www.sightline.org/2016/04/20/how-exclusionary-zoning-robs-our-cities-of-their-best-qualities/]]></link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2016 18:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Eight ways it makes our communities more expensive and less just. | Seattle’s zoning has roots in racial and class exclusion and remains among the largest obstacles to realizing the city&#8217;s goals for equity and affordability. In a city experiencing rapid growth and intense pressures on access to affordable housing, the historic level of single-family zoning is no longer either realistic or sustainable. Strong words from the 2015 Seattle Housing Affordability and Livability Agenda (HALA) report in support of its headline-grabbing recommendation...]]></description>
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		<title>A Good Way to Make Housing Scarcer and More Expensive</title>
		<link><![CDATA[https://www.sightline.org/2016/02/24/a-good-way-to-make-housing-scarcer-and-more-expensive/]]></link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2016 21:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[A cautionary tale of what Seattle learned from five years of “Streamlined Design Review.” | A cautionary tale of what Seattle learned from five years of “Streamlined Design Review&#8221; (a.k.a. how to make housing more expensive).]]></description>
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		<title>Seattle Goes Backward on Micro-housing</title>
		<link><![CDATA[https://www.sightline.org/2014/10/08/seattle-goes-backward-on-micro-housing/]]></link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2014 23:27:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[What will it take to build a power base for inexpensive housing? | Yesterday, to my dismay, the Seattle city council tightened rules on micro-apartments, the neo-rooming houses I lauded last year in Unlocking Home. The council, facing its first ever round of district-by-district elections next year, appears spooked by the complaints of some noisy (but not necessarily numerous) neighbors who have exclusionary attitudes. It imposed new restrictions including a requirement for two sinks in each unit (because&#8230; um&#8230; why?), design review for...]]></description>
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		<title>Are You Planning to Have Kids? (Part 2)</title>
		<link><![CDATA[https://www.sightline.org/2014/07/29/are-you-planning-to-have-kids-part-2/]]></link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2014 13:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[10 lessons from Vancouver's efforts to build family-friendly urban housing. | In my last post about Vancouver BC, I outlined the family-friendly policies that have helped make its downtown a magnet for families with children. But how do those policies play out in real life? What works well for families and what drives urban parents crazy? The University of British Columbia&#8217;s planning department has actually devoted a lot of studentpower to answering those questions. They&#8217;ve collected extensive feedback from residents and...]]></description>
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