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Average firefighter sees a perfectly rectangular Spokane block with wide streets and universal two way access to every house and can't imagine anything other than a single family home safely occupying that lot

Another bill they're talking about bringing up again is one that benefits homeowners at the expense of renters is the corporate homeownership ban. Allowing people to rent single family homes gives renters the ability to live in all neighborhoods.

The homestead exemption bill last year got a lot of sponsors. It's basically a big tax break to homeowners, and a huge bias in the tax code towards homeownership. They talked about offsetting it with a tiny renter credit, but to fully equalize it would require billions and billions in renter credits

WA Legislature’s housing leaders outline vision for 2026 • Washington State Standard Permanent supportive housing, eviction workarounds and financing for rural homes are among the topics Washington lawmakers may soon discuss.

Watched the housing legislative preview. Not looking good, talked about how they want to ban corporate homeownership, and want to eliminate the uniformity clause to give homeowners a big homestead exemption. Not much on supply besides victory lapping washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/10/03/w...

Does NYC not allow compact parking spots? Looks like the minimum parking space size is 8'6" wide, or 8' in some instances. Could lower it to 8' or 7'6 or eliminate parking space dimensional requirements in areas that don't have parking requirements.

All in labor cost for Uber in a city like SF probably $50-60+? $40 in wages *1.5 all in cost

We let people who have no concept of what a city is influence our cities. They could not explain to you how Rome, London, New York City still function despite not being "originally plotted" for what they are today.

This area is set for a SLU like transformation. Brand new zoning, weak Seattle housing market, strong Bellevue job market, light rail and not many other places for apts to go

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Might as well just pack up the team and move it to Atlanta. More money that way.

I don't think so, which is really annoying considering the number of amendments that live in different places with different voting outcomes

In some red states. There are red states where pro-choice isn't a winning stance.

Outside of Ron Johnson, there aren't many swing state Republican senators, because they lose because they have bad candidates who take bad positions in Michigan, Georgia, Arizona, Nevada. In states that swung at some point 16-24 it's just Johnson and McCormick, who rode trump's coattails

Yep he goes out of his way to appear moderate and garner a bipartisan voting record, even on stuff like guns where he's out of step with his party.

In the senate it's not really working for them, most swing states won by trump and biden have dem senators

They don't, Mike Lawler, Brian Fitzpatrick and Susan Collins do not run on the same message as MTG.

I did some shilling in those comments. The organizing does seem to be anti mfte but it was also anti mfte before the committee vote, where they voted to make it even better than the mayors version.

Seems to me like some backend conversations are going on by developers

Speak up in support of the MFTE changes. It’s gonna create so much development that it’ll be Christmas for developers

Can always get entitlements and then if it really increases feasibility go back for more density

MN custom homes targets big SFH so they’ll still max out at the mayors proposal of .8 FAR for two units.

But, I see a ton of proposals that have 4 units that would benefit from added FAR coming through, I don’t know why they’re not waiting.

MN Custom Homes, an Eastside luxury home builder is getting in the Seattle market because they realized they can now build massive .8FAR+ADU homes. this is how you bring wealth to seattle

We've seen this with single stair, it's common to put multiple small buildings on one lot

I'd guess that if stacked flats get built, it's always going to be in 2-3 buildings on one lot instead of one building. Can sell them more as duplexes instead of apartment buildings, can maximize the amount of window space.

Seems like the "not normal" thing of government shutdowns is just downstream of another "not normal" thing of not having a parlimentary system

Agreed, the math of the boom is pretty simple

For example, this lot sold September 2nd for 1.1 million. Under the interim code a developer is proposing 4 1,880 sqft units. A 1,880sqft townhome sells for 1.1-1.2 million. Total $4.5mil

The Seattle 3pack totals <$3mil.

Rare duplex DADU replacing a backyard shed

Tightly packed DADU with no parking, replacing an alley parking spot, neither the house nor DADU will have parking

Backyard 1,000sqft DADU + 250sqft garage

Rare stacked DADU + parking for the main residence. Replaces existing garage

2 Detached ADUs were legalized in June, along with other regulatory improvements. Even with middle housing legislation ADUs offer cheaper permitting, dont require parking or street improvements, and lower setbacks in some cases

Thread of some recent proposals:
2 1,000sqft DADUs with 250sqft garages