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		<title>Montana’s Big Bipartisan Housing Deal</title>
		<link><![CDATA[https://www.sightline.org/2023/05/09/montanas-big-bipartisan-housing-deal/]]></link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 May 2023 14:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Amid the US’s second-worst price spikes and shortage of homes, a broad coalition unified to find solutions.  | ]]></description>
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		<title>How the Washington Legislature Burst the Housing Abundance Dam</title>
		<link><![CDATA[https://www.sightline.org/2023/05/08/how-the-washington-legislature-burst-the-housing-abundance-dam/]]></link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 May 2023 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Making 2023 the year of reform. | ]]></description>
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		<title>Washington Lot Split Bills Would Create Starter Homes, Support Community Stability</title>
		<link><![CDATA[https://www.sightline.org/2023/01/24/washington-lot-split-bills-would-create-starter-homes-support-community-stability/]]></link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2023 00:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[HB 1245 and SB 5364 advance affordability, financial security, wealth-building, and other benefits for Washingtonians in all kinds of communities.  | ]]></description>
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		<title>Seven Reasons Washington Needs Middle Housing</title>
		<link><![CDATA[https://www.sightline.org/2023/01/09/seven-reasons-washington-needs-middle-housing/]]></link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2023 20:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Because housing solutions are solutions for homelessness, jobs, equity, climate, and conservation.  | ]]></description>
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		<title>Washington Bill Would Legalize Hundreds of Thousands More Homes</title>
		<link><![CDATA[https://www.sightline.org/2022/01/06/washington-bill-would-legalize-hundreds-of-thousands-more-homes/]]></link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2022 18:40:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Allowing “middle housing” options would ease the state’s shortage of homes and right historic wrongs. | UPDATE: The House declined to give HB 1782 a floor vote by the February 15 deadline and the bill is dead. Previously,the bill had passed out of the Appropriations and Local Government Committees. UPDATE: Senate companion SB 5670 passed out of the Senate Housing &amp; Local Government Committee but did not receive a hearing in the Senate Ways &amp; Means Committee, which means HB 1782 is now the sole vehicle. &nbsp;...]]></description>
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		<title>Nine Reasons to End Exclusionary Zoning</title>
		<link><![CDATA[https://www.sightline.org/2021/09/29/nine-reasons-to-end-exclusionary-zoning/]]></link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2021 21:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Residential lockdown against modest, multi-dwelling homes harms all but the wealthy. | Most North American cities have outlawed everything except stand-alone houses on large lots on three-quarters or more of their residential land. These zoning rules shut out all but the wealthy in two ways: they quash the number of homes allowed, and they mandate that the few homes which can be built are expensive. Efforts to revoke exclusionary zoning laws have been gaining momentum at the local, state, and federal levels....]]></description>
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		<title>Five Lessons from California&#8217;s Big Zoning Reform</title>
		<link><![CDATA[https://www.sightline.org/2021/08/26/four-lessons-from-californias-big-zoning-reform/]]></link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2021 04:07:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[A pattern is emerging here. | Update 9/16: Senate Bill 9 is now law. Urban housing shortages aren&#8217;t just a cause of climate change. They&#8217;re a lot like climate change&#8212;it&#8217;s very hard to fix them unless you can get many different governments to act. That&#8217;s what we told the New York Times this week when they asked for Sightline&#8217;s take on California&#8217;s proposed state-level legalization of duplexes and lot splits on most low-density residential lots. Cities...]]></description>
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		<title>Eight Ingredients for a State-Level Zoning Reform</title>
		<link><![CDATA[https://www.sightline.org/2021/08/13/eight-ingredients-for-a-state-level-zoning-reform/]]></link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2021 17:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Lessons from Oregon's landmark legalization of fourplexes and townhouses. | In 2019, Oregon passed a first-of-its-kind state law that ordered larger cities and the Portland metro area to rapidly legalize duplexes on all residential lots and fourplexes, triplexes, townhomes, and cottage clusters on more than half of lots. This is a short, reported history of how that law was passed in the face of fierce opposition. It was created in partnership with the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, its first...]]></description>
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		<title>How to Tear Down the Invisible Walls in Your City&#8217;s Zoning Code</title>
		<link><![CDATA[https://www.sightline.org/2021/08/06/how-to-tear-down-the-invisible-walls-in-your-citys-zoning-code/]]></link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2021 22:11:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[10 tips for zoning reformers from a town that legalized housing. | This is a sidebar to Sightline&#8217;s history of the passage of Portland&#8217;s residential infill project. In August 2021, Oregon&#8217;s largest city legalized duplexes, triplexes, fourplexes and mixed-income sixplexes on the vast majority of residential lots for the first time since 1959, while making on-site parking spaces optional citywide for the first time since 1973. The history was created in partnership with its first publisher, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy....]]></description>
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		<title>Washington Tries the Carrot Approach for Statewide Zoning Reform</title>
		<link><![CDATA[https://www.sightline.org/2021/06/04/washington-tries-the-carrot-approach-for-statewide-zoning-reform/]]></link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2021 17:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Three incentive bills won support from cities, but died nonetheless. | Pro-housing state lawmakers hoping to ease Washington’s dire housing shortage tried something new this year: the offer of a financial incentive to cities if they opt to allow more homes by loosening their zoning laws. Cities embraced the approach, in stark contrast to their typical hostility to any state bills that would mandate zoning reforms.   Legislators considered three bills with variations on the incentive theme and, though there was broad stakeholder support and little opposition, failed to...]]></description>
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