Tell Seattle: We need more housing!

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Seattle is amid a massive housing shortage and affordability crisis. Two-thirds of Gen Z and senior renters are rent-burdened, incomes needed to own a home are the highest outside California, and we've seen a 30% increase in homelessness since 2015.

Despite this, the city, in its once-a-decade revamp of our zoning code, is not planning for enough housing to combat our shortage. We're already tens of thousands of housing units behind demand and this plan is projected to slow housing construction even further.

Tell Seattle, we need more housing everywhere!

  • We need to open rich, single-family neighborhoods to family-sized apartments, something this plan completely lacks despite a statewide mandate
  • We need to plan upwards and permit density in existing multifamily areas, especially near transit
  • New Light Rail stations should be up-zoned
  • Parking mandates, which increase the cost of housing and climate emissions should be removed from the plan
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