60.00% - 'Neighborhood character' objections to new buildings usually mean not wanting more people nearby — that's not a legitimate planning objection.
40.00% - Most of Seattle should be upzoned — not to highrise density, but to gentle density: duplexes, accessory dwelling units, small apartment buildings.
Upzoning requires only a change to the zoning map and the political will to implement it.
33.33% - Restricting development to manage affordability paradoxically makes it worse — more supply, even market-rate supply, moderates prices over time.
22.22% - If you live in a city, change is the deal — trying to freeze your neighborhood at the moment you arrived isn't stewardship, it's NIMBYism dressed up as love of place.
22.22% - Liberal cities should use their local power to deliver affordable housing.
22.22% - Building codes that add cost to small buildings without proportional safety benefit often exist to protect incumbent housing values, not actual safety.
50.00% - Upzoning requires only a change to the zoning map and the political will to implement it.
50.00% - A city that maintains exclusionary zoning while claiming to address its housing crisis is choosing the problem.
0.00% - Upzoning is is always an available option, you need only the will to implement it.
50.00% - Single-family zoning