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		<title>Let There Be Housing in Downtown Anchorage</title>
		<link><![CDATA[https://www.sightline.org/2021/08/30/let-there-be-housing-in-downtown-anchorage/]]></link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2021 20:41:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Anchorage’s new mayor has the chance to make lasting and historic improvements to the heart of Alaska’s largest city. | Anchorage’s new mayor, Dave Bronson, is on point in putting downtown near the top of his to-do list. A world-class urban center in Alaska’s largest city has long been the Holy Grail for Anchorage leaders. The quest has brought some success: walkable blocks of office buildings, hotels, restaurants, and shops; the Anchorage Museum and the Performing Arts Center; and, not far from City Hall, two trailheads to the “Moose Loop,”...]]></description>
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		<title>Yes, Other Countries Do Housing Better, Case 1: Japan</title>
		<link><![CDATA[https://www.sightline.org/2021/03/25/yes-other-countries-do-housing-better-case-1-japan/]]></link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2021 22:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Political lessons from ten nations about building affordable, low-carbon neighborhoods. | Last time, I imagined an alternative political economy of housing in the United States. This time, I begin a tour of other countries’ housing regimes. “If you can’t solve a problem, enlarge it.” This oft-repeated maxim was probably not expressed by Dwight D. Eisenhower, despite Internet claims to the contrary. (Experts at the Eisenhower Presidential Library have never found evidence he said it.) Still, it’s wise counsel: expanding the scope...]]></description>
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		<title>Infographic: The Mean Musical Chairs of Rising Rent and Home Prices</title>
		<link><![CDATA[https://www.sightline.org/2018/03/14/infographic-the-mean-musical-chairs-of-rising-rent-and-home-prices/]]></link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2018 13:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Our popular video explainer, now as a handy, printable graphic. | How does a growing, prospering city stay affordable for all kinds of people? At the most basic level, when there aren’t enough homes for all the people who want to live there, prices will keep rising. And when there are plenty of homes, it helps prices stay down. It’s like a huge game of musical chairs. If there aren’t enough chairs when the music stops, someone is left out. When there aren’t...]]></description>
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		<title>Listen In: &#8216;There Goes the Neighborhood&#8217;</title>
		<link><![CDATA[https://www.sightline.org/2017/11/27/listen-in-there-goes-the-neighborhood/]]></link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2017 14:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Sightline's Alan Durning discusses solutions to high housing costs on <i>KCRW-WNYC's</i> podcast. | Can we build our way out of this housing crisis? How do we define affordability? What is the impact of foreign investments on the housing market? And how do cities avoid becoming places for the wealthy few? To cap KCRW-WNYC&#8217;s &#8220;There Goes the Neighborhood&#8221; podcast season, Sightline&#8217;s executive director Alan Durning joined other housing experts to discuss solutions to high housing costs and gentrification in Los Angeles and beyond. The panel...]]></description>
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		<title>Video: Building the Affordable City</title>
		<link><![CDATA[https://www.sightline.org/2017/11/21/video-building-the-affordable-city/]]></link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2017 14:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Housing challenges and solutions from Chicago, San Francisco, and around the world. | Can cities build their way to affordability? How do metropolitan cities deal with rapid growth and change? And what is the YIMBY movement? Earlier this fall, Sightline welcomed two leading voices on urbanism, Kim-Mai Cutler and Daniel Kay Hertz, to Seattle to discuss these questions and report on housing lessons learned in their respective cities. Below is a video of the event for those who were unable to attend (and for those who...]]></description>
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		<title>Washington’s State Environmental Policy Act Has Become A Bane To Sustainable Urban Development</title>
		<link><![CDATA[https://www.sightline.org/2017/11/07/washingtons-state-environmental-policy-act-has-become-a-bane-to-sustainable-urban-development/]]></link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Nov 2017 19:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[SEPA routinely obstructs exactly the kind of green housing that cities most need. | Designed to meet the rigorous Living Building Challenge, Seattle’s Bullitt Center is one of the greenest office buildings on the planet. But that didn’t stop antagonists from hijacking Washington’s State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA) to stall its construction. Why? Because they didn’t like that it would provide no off-street parking and that its rooftop solar panels would block views and cast shadows. Washington enacted SEPA&#8212;a sweeping package of environmental rules&#8212;in...]]></description>
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		<title>Video: Cruel Musical Chairs (or Why Is Rent So High?)</title>
		<link><![CDATA[https://www.sightline.org/2017/10/31/video-cruel-musical-chairs-why-is-rent-so-high/]]></link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2017 13:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[A simple reason is: we don’t have enough places to live. | How does a growing, prospering city stay affordable for all kinds of people? At the most basic level, when there aren’t enough homes, prices will keep rising. And when there are plenty of homes, it helps prices stay down. It’s like a huge game of musical chairs. If there aren’t enough chairs when the music stops, someone is left out. When there aren’t enough homes for people who live and...]]></description>
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		<title>Build Less, Share More: An Urban Mantra for Taming Parking</title>
		<link><![CDATA[https://www.sightline.org/2017/10/05/build-less-share-more-an-urban-mantra-for-taming-parking/]]></link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Oct 2017 13:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Seattle's new parking proposal illustrates how. | If I were Emperor of Cascadia, I would ban all rules that require new buildings to provide off-street parking spaces. The case against mandating parking couldn’t be stronger: parking makes housing more expensive; it reinforces reliance on carbon-spewing cars; it hinders travel by walking, biking, and transit; and it makes cities ugly. Not being the emperor, though, I’ll take what I can get, and the set of parking reforms Seattle...]]></description>
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		<title>Impact Fees: An Urban Planning Zombie in Need of Slaying</title>
		<link><![CDATA[https://www.sightline.org/2017/09/28/impact-fees-an-urban-planning-zombie-in-need-of-slaying/]]></link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Sep 2017 18:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Eight reasons why impact fees thwart the creation of equitable, sustainable cities. | When people make a mess we expect them to clean it up. If a private business harms others, we demand it pay the damages. These norms stoke the allure of impact fees&#8212;charges levied on homebuilders to compensate for the presumed burden on public services caused by the homes they construct. But in the case of cities, there’s one big problem with that impulse: adding new homes to urban neighborhoods is...]]></description>
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		<title>Yes, You Can Build Your Way to Affordable Housing</title>
		<link><![CDATA[https://www.sightline.org/2017/09/21/yes-you-can-build-your-way-to-affordable-housing/]]></link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Sep 2017 13:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Lessons from unexpected places. | “You can’t build your way out of a housing affordability problem.” That’s conventional wisdom. I hear it all the time: Prosperous, growing, tech-rich cities from Seattle to the Bay Area and from Austin to Boston are all gripped by soaring rents and home prices. But what if you can build your way to affordable housing? What if, in fact, building is the only path to affordable housing? What if cities...]]></description>
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