50.00% - Single-family-only zoning is the primary legal instrument of the housing shortage — you can't solve scarcity while keeping most land off-limits to additional households.
27.50% - Seattle hasn't run out of space — the constraint is zoning, not land; single-family zones represent enormous potential for gentle density.
22.50% - A city that prices out working-class and middle-class people stops being a city in any meaningful sense — urban density is only valuable when it's inclusive.
Seventy percent of Seattle's land is zoned exclusively for single-family homes, blocking denser affordable housing.
46.43% - Seattle hasn't run out of space — the constraint is zoning, not land; single-family zones represent enormous potential for gentle density.
25.00% - A city that prices out working-class and middle-class people stops being a city in any meaningful sense — urban density is only valuable when it's inclusive.
14.29% - Duplexes, triplexes, townhouses, and mid-rise apartments should be the baseline across Seattle — upzoning as the default, let the market build what people need.
14.29% - Most of Seattle should be upzoned — not to highrise density, but to gentle density: duplexes, accessory dwelling units, small apartment buildings.
50.00% - Seventy percent of Seattle's land is zoned exclusively for single-family homes, blocking denser affordable housing.
50.00% - Single-family zoning across most of Seattle effectively prohibits the density needed to address the housing crisis.
0.00% - 70% of Seattle is zoned as single family homes - preventing smaller more affordable housing.
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