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		<title>Tearing Down McMansion-Sized Housing Myths</title>
		<link><![CDATA[https://www.sightline.org/2019/03/25/mcmansion-sized-housing-myths/]]></link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2019 13:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Fisking one of Seattle’s premier anti-housing crusaders | Last week, one of the leading housing obstructionists in Cascadia’s biggest city took to the Seattle Times op-ed page to make a case against the city’s two most consequential pro-housing affordability reforms&#8212;and efforts in the state legislature to bring affordable home choices to communities across Washington. That case, published in the largest-circulation periodical in the region, is a fire hose of misinformation, a masterpiece of gish gallop, a pack&#8212;as Kurt...]]></description>
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		<title>2018 in Review: Progress toward Re-legalizing Multiple-Dwelling Homes</title>
		<link><![CDATA[https://www.sightline.org/2018/12/31/2018-in-review-progress-toward-re-legalizing-multiple-dwelling-homes/]]></link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2018 15:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[More homes of all shapes and sizes is a critical part of the path to tackling our concurrent affordability and climate crises. | The Sightline Housing and Urbanism team’s foremost theme of 2018 was Cascadia’s slow but sure progress toward re-legalizing modest multiple-dwelling homes on land previously locked away for suburban-style houses on big grassy lots. I add the “re” to “legalize” because historically in North American cities, duplexes, triplexes, courtyard homes, rowhouses and small apartments were sprinkled in with stand-alone houses. Starting in the 1920s, cities began ratcheting down zoning restrictions on...]]></description>
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		<title>Seattle Gets MHA Right in Downtown and SLU</title>
		<link><![CDATA[https://www.sightline.org/2017/03/20/seattle-gets-mha-right-in-downtown-and-slu/]]></link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Mar 2017 20:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Which means a win-win for Seattleites seeking a diversity of housing options. | This article is part of a series on Seattle’s proposed Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA) program. In previous articles, I identified inconsistencies in the proposal and presented case studies (here, here, and here) on several housing prototypes, in all cases finding that MHA would suppress homebuilding and backfire on the city’s affordability goals to varying degrees. This time: MHA in downtown and South Lake Union, where the city got it right....]]></description>
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		<title>How to Fix Seattle’s MHA Proposal For U District Highrises</title>
		<link><![CDATA[https://www.sightline.org/2017/02/02/how-to-fix-seattle-mha-proposal-for-university-district-highrise/]]></link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2017 14:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Uncorrected, the draft plan will undermine city's goals for affordability and sustainability. | In previous articles on Seattle’s proposed Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA) program, I explained the program’s theory and risks, gave a broad critique of the math, and presented a case study of MHA for two types of mid-rise buildings, finding that MHA as currently drafted would suppress homebuilding and jeopardize the city’s affordability goals. Today: MHA’s high-rise upzones. Seattle plans soon to launch MHA in the University District (U District), where...]]></description>
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		<title>Higher Prices, Fewer Affordable Homes?</title>
		<link><![CDATA[https://www.sightline.org/2017/01/23/higher-prices-fewer-affordable-homes-draft-mha-numbers-dont-pencil/]]></link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2017 10:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Seattle’s draft MHA numbers don’t pencil: case studies of two apartment zones. | Last time, I broadly assessed the math behind Seattle’s proposed Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA) program and found it flawed but repairable. This time, I take a closer look at the thing I said Seattle policymakers most need to do if MHA is going to deliver on its promise&#8212;a promise to build more homes for everyone and more affordable homes for low-income residents, a promise to become a new North American...]]></description>
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		<title>Checking Seattle’s MHA Math</title>
		<link><![CDATA[https://www.sightline.org/2017/01/10/checking-seattle-mandatory-housing-affordability-math/]]></link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2017 21:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Fixing first draft errors can fulfill the city’s housing affordability promise. | Since the release of Seattle’s Housing Affordability and Livability (HALA) plan in July 2015, city policymakers have been plugging away at defining its most ambitious policy, a type of inclusionary zoning called “Mandatory Housing Affordability” (MHA). MHA couples zoning changes that allow larger buildings&#8212;“upzones”&#8212;with mandates on developers to provide affordable homes or pay into the city’s affordable housing fund. With MHA, Seattle has an opportunity to become a model for...]]></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>&#8220;Everyone Deserves an Affordable Place to Live&#8221;</title>
		<link><![CDATA[https://www.sightline.org/2016/07/12/everyone-deserves-an-affordable-place-to-live/]]></link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2016 13:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Seattle residents show their support for the proposed Mandatory Housing Affordability program. | Last month, Seattle residents came out to city council to show their support for the mayor&#8217;s proposed Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA) program. The MHA program would address Seattle&#8217;s housing shortage by creating 6,100 new affordable housing units within the next decade for people making 60% of the area median income. You can find out more about the program in our recent article. We&#8217;ve compiled a few testimonies below, including one from yours truly, to...]]></description>
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		<title>Seattle’s Housing Future Depends on a Mathematical and Political Balancing Act</title>
		<link><![CDATA[https://www.sightline.org/2016/06/01/seattles-housing-future-depends-on-a-mathematical-and-political-balancing-act/]]></link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2016 13:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[The Mandatory Housing Affordability program, explained. | The centerpiece of Seattle’s Housing Affordability and Livability Agenda (HALA) is an innovative policy called Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA). Exemplifying HALA’s core principle of leveraging growth for affordability, MHA promises to fulfill almost a third of the city’s ten-year goal to produce 20,000 affordable homes. To get there, though, MHA must play nice with the unpredictable and dynamic world of private real-estate development, and that calls for a cautious approach to...]]></description>
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