Aidan T 🌐

Under construction units right now are heavily concentrated in downtown of course and... Seattle's second neighborhood, U-Village? Funny how 2 massive student housing projects and a bold private developer created this weird situation

With the chance that Seattle does 'MHA for mansions', I wonder if it's really lifetime fiscally positive. Seattle gets a one time fee but also gets: lower property tax revenue lower sales tax revenue (construction, and the residents lifetime purchases) some projects don't pencil lower misc taxes

City Hall is so funny, like it was built in the “leave everyone a little unhappy” lab

Haven't read El Salvador's national parking reform. The country eliminated parking requirements nationwide.

This chart tells a pretty incredible success story MHA funds are the smallest slice of this graph and yet MHA is the only funding source that directly hurts renters by blocking new homes from being built @mayorofseattle.bsky.social let's use this success to undo the damage from MHA!

Looking at this chart, can YIMBYs just retcon the voter approved housing levy as successfully funding MHA? The increase happened to be the nearly the exact amount MHA was

2 DADUs proposed for an LR3 lot. ADUs are now MHA free, so creates an incentive for this in LR3 zones

Building permit issued for a 5-story 25-unit apartment at SE 31st and Belmont www.portlandmaps.com/detail/permi... The project has been in the works since 2020; I assume recent policy changes including fully-funded IZ and the SDC waiver have gotten this to the point where construction is imminent.

Amazing news. Seattle's biggest challenge isn't even upzoning a lot when rezonings occur, it's not having rezonings occur very often at all. Exactly what a mayor at the beginning of their term should look to do

Regardless of if the retail mandate bill passes or fails, why can't Seattle just end retail mandates on it's own? Seem to be the most punishing in Seattle anyways

Still the case that developers are proposing underbuilding apartment zoned sites so that they can build townhomes This proposal is for 9 likely 3 story townhomes where the zoning allows for a 3.0 FAR 40' apartment building

Proposal for even more student housing in U-District, on The Ave, 6 stories. Replaces two low slung traditional 'The Ave' buildings. Wonder what the point of blocking skyscrapers on The Ave if this happens anyway 🤔

Wish we could do this in Seattle, but the purpose of MHA here is to pay non-profits, not generate affordable housing efficiently

I feel like you see a lot of work/live townhomes around Seattle that never realize the “work” part. In this little area of Mount Baker, there are several townhomes with businesses (yoga studio, acct biz, cafe, permanent makeup studio, spa). What’s the recipe to make it work?

Except if you are a renter, in which case you deserve no benefit. Huge homestead exemptions are one of the most regressive taxes out there, anything is better than this

In Tacoma you can apparently build a FAR exempt 900sqft garage in a DADU vs just 250ft in Seattle lol