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" ... My guess is that many of the people in that crowd were out in the Seattle streets this week yelling “Black Lives Matter” at the cops. Yet they are the same demographic that were staunchly opposed to small-lot housing, microhousing, density in low-rise zones, and for taxing new housing and jobs. These are precisely the things – reducing housing supply, raising housing prices, killing jobs, and creating a housing shortage – that are disproportionately felt by people of color in Seattle. ... "
" ... Seattle never had an arbitrary minimum unit size, and for a period of time, many so-called “microhousing” units were created, some as small as 150 square feet. I lived in one that was 220 square feet. But the City Council intervened at the request of single-family neighbors who didn’t want the projects near their neighborhoods. What happened? Here’s a chart from Neiman’s article: ... "
" ... The business community has been unable to stop or push back on a myriad of laws, rules, taxes, and initiatives intended to somehow level the playing field for people with less money, but invariably do little but add costs and process time to new housing. Somehow, the Council and Mayor have no patience for smaller housing in single-family neighborhoods, microhousing, more apartments, or townhouses but they do have lots of patience for tents and camps in parks and public property. It’s understandable, then, that the people supporting sweeps of those camps are the same people who opposed other forms of housing as well. Why, they wonder, would you kill microhousing because I asked you to but you won't arrest someone sleeping in the park? ... "
" ... This Goldilocks effect means that a millionaire’s house can be “too big” while someone living in their car isn’t really housed at all. Seattle struggled with microhousing, 150 square foot apartments that boomed here over several years, because many thought them “too small.” ... "