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		<title>YIMBYtown 2020: Fair and Sustainable Cities Is around the Corner</title>
		<link><![CDATA[https://www.sightline.org/2020/01/17/yimbytown-2020-fair-and-sustainable-cities-is-around-the-corner/]]></link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2020 13:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Sightline Institute and Portland: Neighbors Welcome are co-hosting this national convening of the pro-housing movement. | Editor&#8217;s note: The YIMBYtown 2020 conference has been postponed due to precautionary measures instated to protect Oregonians&#8212;and everyone&#8212;from COVID-19 exposure. Stay tuned for updates about rescheduling and interim programming online.  Sightline Institute’s mission is to make the Northwest a global model of sustainability&#8212;strong communities, a green economy, and a healthy environment. As we’ve grown our housing and urbanism program, it has become increasingly clear that housing policy is, in fact,...]]></description>
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		<title>Why Mother-In-Laws Matter</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2020 13:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[From economic security and affordability to sustainability, talking up the benefits of ADUs. | Mother-in-Laws do matter! But we&#8217;re not talking about our spouses&#8217; moms. (Hi, Linda!) We&#8217;re talking about apartments over garages, daylight basement suites, and backyard cottages. This kind of home can be a great living solution for renters and owners alike&#8212;with benefits for the whole community too. READ MORE: ADU Parking Quotas Are Climate Killers A key tool to keep rents and home prices under control in cities big and small is...]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Restore My Neighborhood&#8217;: One Cascadian’s Take on Re-legalizing Housing</title>
		<link><![CDATA[https://www.sightline.org/2019/04/09/restore-my-neighborhood-one-cascadians-take-on-re-legalizing-housing/]]></link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2019 22:33:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA['I moved to a block filled with young families.' | The housing committee of the Oregon House of Representatives voted unanimously Monday to back what would be the state&#8217;s strongest blow against economic segregation in at least 35 years. Rep. Alissa Keny-Guyer, the committee chair who&#8217;s been battling cancer while assembling an already-historic raft of housing legislation, hurried back to the Capitol so she could join the 9-0 &#8220;yes&#8221; vote for House Bill 2001, which would legalize duplexes, triplexes, quads...]]></description>
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		<title>Why Mother-In-Laws Matter</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2019 13:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[From economic security and affordability to sustainability, talking up the benefits of ADUs. | Mother-in-Laws do matter! But we&#8217;re not talking about our spouses&#8217; moms. (Hi, Linda!) We&#8217;re talking about apartments over garages, daylight basement suites, and backyard cottages. This kind of home can be a great living solution for renters and owners alike&#8212;with benefits for the whole community too. READ MORE: ADU Parking Quotas Are Climate Killers A key tool to keep rents and home prices under control in cities big and small is...]]></description>
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		<title>Washington State to Consider Groundbreaking Suite of Housing Affordability Bills</title>
		<link><![CDATA[https://www.sightline.org/2019/02/07/washington-state-housing-affordability-bills/]]></link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2019 22:48:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Lawmakers are advancing a balanced mix of bills to boost homebuilding, fund affordable housing, and protect tenants. | Across Cascadia, high rents and home prices are leaving people behind. Local governments struggle to meet this massive challenge of politics and funding. In response, this year Washington state legislators are stepping up with a remarkably comprehensive suite of housing bills. Tackling a housing affordability crisis calls for three main fixes: more homes; more funding for affordable homes; and more tenant protections. Impressively, Washington lawmakers have proposed bills that do...]]></description>
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		<title>Cascadia’s Three Huge Urbanism Wins of 2018</title>
		<link><![CDATA[https://www.sightline.org/2018/11/21/three-things-were-thankful-for-in-cascadian-urban-policy/]]></link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2018 13:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, we actually did that: 3 big wins for Cascadian city lovers this fall. | The winter blanket of clouds finally slid over the Pacific Northwest this week, and as we head indoors this year, it&#8217;s worth lighting a candle for some of the good news that Cascadia&#8217;s cities continue to deliver themselves&#8212;and hopefully shine out into the rest of the world. As urban policy wonks may have noticed, we&#8217;ve been doing quite a lot. 1. Portland just approved one of North America&#8217;s biggest-ever shifts...]]></description>
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		<title>How Cascadian Cities Can Be Smarter about Their Surplus Land</title>
		<link><![CDATA[https://www.sightline.org/2018/10/29/how-cascadian-cities-can-be-smarter-about-their-surplus-land/]]></link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2018 12:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[What if local governments viewed surplus land not as a revenue generator but an opportunity to reduce displacement?  | As cities across Cascadia look to technological solutions, such as modular construction, to help address the region-wide shortage of affordable housing, one of the biggest factors currently driving up costs is also one of the most resistant to intervention: Land prices, which can add tens of thousands of dollars to the cost of producing a single subsidized apartment. Cities don’t have a lot of tools for lowering land costs, but...]]></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>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>Every Month Portland’s Infill Rules Aren’t Changed, the City Looks More like This</title>
		<link><![CDATA[https://www.sightline.org/2018/01/18/every-month-portlands-infill-rules-arent-changed-the-city-looks-more-like-this/]]></link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jan 2018 14:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[An annotated gallery of middle-class displacement. | Editor&#8217;s note: This post was originally published on Medium. These Portland, Oregon, examples illustrate a trend prevalent throughout North America in high-cost cities with too much zoning that allows only detached houses. Single-family zoning yields the worst possible outcome for affordability by effectively mandating that modest homes will be replaced by huge expensive ones, further raising the walls of economic exclusion. Since January 2015, when the City of Portland started talking seriously about changing...]]></description>
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