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All about solving the housing and homelessness crisis. Join us at
http://SeattleYIMBY.org
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Dead Carl
2 days ago
This gets at one of the biggest problems with American left-of-center political culture: the default to subsidies. Not only is it simply incorrect, as the thread shows, but it leads to a zero-sum worldview, that for someone to gain, someone has to lose.
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Homes4WA
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This session we’re again working to help pass SB 5156 to make elevators more economical in WA. Legalizing smaller, lower-cost elevators will help make more small-scale apartment buildings and age-friendly city living accessible to more Washingtonians, no matter their physical abilities. 🆙🆙🆙
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SB 5156 Washington State Legislature
https://app.leg.wa.gov/BillSummary/?BillNumber=5156&Year=2025&Initiative=false
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Next door in Silicon Valley
4 days ago
Bluesky: People sleep on the street because of BILLIONAIRES and CORPORATIONS Reality: Mom dad grandma grandpa are why people sleep on the street
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Hamilton Nolan
7 days ago
America has a housing shortage. Every single housing proposal you see that is not "build more housing" will have the primary effect of pushing up the prices of existing housing, and is therefore, in reality, a plan to enrich current homeowners. In conclusion, build more housing.
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Welcoming Neighbors Network
8 days ago
A must watch: our friends at
@sightline.org
explain the elevator policy fixes needed to unlock more inclusive, affordable homes đź›—
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Push The Needle
10 days ago
Someone needs to say it. The black population not only has grown in Seattle, but since the upzones started in 1990, it’s grown in the dense areas which include the historically black neighborhoods of Southeast Seattle. It declined everywhere else. Low density zoning gentrified cities, not upzoning
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Bring on the elevators!
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Robert Cruickshank
24 days ago
Really good, detailed, insightful stuff from
@ronpdavis.bsky.social
on funded IZ
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Ron Davis
24 days ago
What to do about inclusionary zoning in Seattle? I untangle the mess and show we can BOTH fund it AND allow in-lieu fees. This is a fair way to get more housing + more affordable housing + keep affordable housing providers whole.
www.theurbanist.org/2025/12/30/o...
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Op-Ed: Seattle’s Path to Fund Inclusionary Zoning and Boost Homebuilding » The Urbanist
# Funded inclusionary zoning unlocks the benefits of inclusionary zoning while offsetting its harms. It’s a path to more market-rate housing and more subsidized affordable housing. While funded inclus...
https://www.theurbanist.org/2025/12/30/op-ed-seattles-path-to-fund-inclusionary-zoning-and-boost-homebuilding/
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Spokane Rising
about 1 month ago
The state’s operating budget will never be able to support highway maintenance activity unless we
#LiftTheCap
on property tax levy increases to at least CPI + 3%.
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Lift the cap!
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Phil
about 1 month ago
It is honestly shocking how long we've known the way we build our cities is unsustainable
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Anna Zivarts
about 1 month ago
With all the road washouts, the state transportation budget is going to be a mess. Maybe it's time we started looking at cutting projects that increase highway capacity and induce more sprawl. Here's $86 million we don't need to spend.
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I-5 - 179th St. Interchange - Interchange Improvements | WSDOT
This project aims to improve mobility for travelers who use the I-5 - Northeast 179th Street interchange. Signalized intersections will be removed and replaced with roundabouts at the on- and off-ramp...
https://wsdot.wa.gov/construction-planning/search-projects/i-5-179th-st-interchange-interchange-improvements
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1 million Portlanders by 2045 🌲🌧️🦫🚲🚇
about 1 month ago
We need the building code to incentivize concrete construction over light wood framing. Concrete is inherently non-combustible and has good acoustic performance.
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Ryan Packer
about 1 month ago
Representatives April Connors (R-8, Kennewick) and Addison Richards (D-26, Bremerton) have prefiled a bill that would freeze Washington's building code for ten full years.
app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/...
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Important concept: in a housing shortage prices for the lowest priced housing for sale or rent goes up the fastest
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about 1 month ago
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David Welton
about 1 month ago
The front page of the local paper has an article about middle housing - with a quote from
@andersem.bsky.social
and one of our
@yimbyaction.bsky.social
chapter leads, Ryan. As well as an article about single stair reform. Not bad!
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Trump and his people are evil.
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Bryn Davidson - Lanefab
3 months ago
I had a chance to tour the Solis passive house apartment building in Seattle this past weekend. It's interesting as a
#passivhaus
in the middle of Capitol Hill, with a view to another green building icon, the Bullitt Centre >> The passive part is great, but what caught my eye was the stair. đź§µ
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For shame
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about 1 month ago
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Michael Wiebe
about 2 months ago
Learn about housing economics research here:
www.buildingabundance.ca
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Building Abundance | Michael Wiebe | Substack
A literature review on housing and infrastructure. Click to read Building Abundance, by Michael Wiebe, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
https://www.buildingabundance.ca/
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Get organized. Join YIMBY Action.
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about 2 months ago
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Seattle YIMBY
about 2 months ago
Lawsuit challenges inclusionary zoning (such as Seattle's MHA program) as unconstitutional
pioneerlegal.org/wp-content/u...
The Constitution "bar[s the] Government from forcing some people alone to bear public burdens which, in all fairness and justice, should be borne by the public as a whole.’"
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Michael Andersen
about 2 months ago
These rules would do a lot of things, but here's
@sightline.org
's summary of what we see as the most important things
www.sightline.org/2025/12/03/n...
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New Oregon Rules Will Re-Legalize Neighborhood Apartments | Sightline Institute
Over time, the state zoning standards make space for tens of thousands more homes in Oregon cities.
https://www.sightline.org/2025/12/03/new-oregon-rules-will-re-legalize-neighborhood-apartments/
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Push The Needle
about 2 months ago
Wow I never thought I’d be saying this, but we are behind SAN FRANCISCO
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Stephen Jacob Smith
about 2 months ago
Still thinking about this article. It’s always been a sore spot in YIMBY circles that so many progressive foundations pour money into NIMBYism, and I’m glad it’s finally being aired in public. Keep talking about it.
www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/philant...
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Philanthropy Needs to Pick a Side on the Housing Construction Debate
Despite California’s severe housing shortage, foundations are still funding on the wrong side of the housing fight there, guest author Ned Resnikoff writes.
https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/philanthropy-needs-to-pick-a-side-on-the-housing-construction-debate
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Yay!
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about 2 months ago
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Share The Cities
2 months ago
Hello Seattle Urbanists — if we want market rate development to happen with all the interest rates and tariffs and other barriers we have to get rid of MHA temporarily to speed up housing. And we have to get rid of minimum parking requirements. Asap.
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In addition to reform of permitting and building codes, stop making new construction pay out of proportion and excessive fees for water hookups.
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Reform permitting and to extent possible building codes, especially in neighborhood and midrise zones.
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Naveen
2 months ago
Wanna stick it to Trump and live up to the Paris Accords, California? Stop driving so much *and* tell your city council's to build bus and bike lanes instead of throwing away money on car infrastructure.
www.aalto.fi/en/departmen...
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1 million Portlanders by 2045 🌲🌧️🦫🚲🚇
2 months ago
I want an apartment with such good sound insulation that I could be getting slashed in there screaming for help, and not one of my neighbors would hear me. ...or like, I shouldn't hear my neighbors fucking or hear a neighbors dog barking. Build apartments out of concrete is what I'm saying.
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Carl Quintanilla
2 months ago
Trump’s new “affordability” push is basically reversing the tariffs he said would never cause un-affordability.
@nytimes.com
🤡
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
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ryan cooper
2 months ago
amusing chart. it turns out New York City built more housing units in the 1920s than in the 1970s, 80s, 90s, 2000s, and 2010s put together
www.nyc.gov/content/plan...
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Convert MHA to funded inclusionary zoning as Portland has done.
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Spokane Rising
2 months ago
I live a cross-state life, and I think all Washingtonians need to be invested in Seattle’s success. So here are a few things I would be looking to do if I were Katie Wilson or if I were joining her administration:
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Mayor Melanie Kebler
2 months ago
When we build enough supply of homes so that landlords must compete, renters win. "The more properties there are, it drives all of us to lower rents and offer concessions" says the property manager pictured here.
bendbulletin.com/2025/11/11/b...
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Bend's surge of apartment construction flattens rent hikes - The Bulletin
When Ian Gray looked for an apartment to rent in Bend earlier this year, he had something not available only a few years ago: a choice. Gray, who moved to Bend for a job as the city’s first-ever urban...
https://bendbulletin.com/2025/11/11/bends-surge-of-apartment-construction-flattens-rent-hikes/
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The Urbanist
2 months ago
The number of curable ballots from Seattle has edged downward a little since midday yesterday. There's now just over 1,700 curable ballots, which still skew younger.
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Low Stakes Opinion Peddler
3 months ago
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
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Balducci is a class act.
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3 months ago
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The Urbanist
3 months ago
There's lot of challenged ballots in Seattle. Challenged ballots disproportionately skew younger with over half from people under age 45.
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Katie Wilson for Seattle
3 months ago
We’re on the right track! Make sure you track your ballot to confirm it is accepted, NOT challenged. Check our links in bio to do so! More votes will be counted on Monday!
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K.H.I.
3 months ago
Bummed about a Claudia. She would have been a better exec.
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The Urbanist
3 months ago
You can also volunteer to help assist the ballot curing effort!
docs.google.com/forms/d/15iZ...
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Ballot Curing for Katie Wilson
Fills this form out if you want to help cure ballots!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/15iZXr8Nj0mbkk5TQm93zuC-GCozAhFJVcMIM1VQ-vJg/viewform?edit_requested=true
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The Urbanist
3 months ago
Verify online that your ballot has been received and counted! ‼️
info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
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King County Elections
Led by Director Julie Wise, King County Elections conducts accurate, secure, and accessible elections for King County's over 1.4 million registered voters.
https://info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/vote/myvoterinfo/ballottracker
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reposted by
Propaganda Hat
3 months ago
1/ Seattle! 2000 ballots need signatures (updates or didn't sign)!! Tell your friends to check their ballot status here:
info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
And if you have time between now & Nov. 14, volunteer to help cure votes:
linktr.ee/Wilsonforsea...
("Ballot Chasing for Katie Wilson")
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Erica C. Barnett
3 months ago
I don't just type things up on Bluesky (though the election number crunching and analysis I've been doing is part of my job)—I also have a website,
PubliCola.com
, where you can read my local coverage and also support my work, which is 100% funded by readers.
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