Dan Bertolet @danbertolet
Director of Housing and Urbanism @Sightline. Before that, worked as an urban planning consultant. Before that, was an electrical engineer. Views here just mine. sightline.org Seattle Joined November 2010-
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How it started, how it's going: YIMBY Austin edition therealdeal.com/texas/2024/02/…
Permits for new homes are declining for the the 2nd year in a row in WA (-25%) and metro Seattle (-36%). State lawmakers can't change interest rates, but this trend should motivate them to keep pushing on zoning reform to allow more homes. mynorthwest.com/3957505/washin…
Capturing the value of upzones by mandating affordabity is one of those policies that seems justified, but when you unpack it, it's actually deeply flawed. This great UCLA paper that spells it all out. Reads spot on to me. Does anyone have a convincing rejoinder to it?
Capturing the value of upzones by mandating affordabity is one of those policies that seems justified, but when you unpack it, it's actually deeply flawed. This great UCLA paper that spells it all out. Reads spot on to me. Does anyone have a convincing rejoinder to it? https://t.co/Vq826szeB1
The only valid defense of unfunded IZ is political: if it's the only way to get upzones passed, then it may be better than doing nothing. But for middle housing in Seattle, the state bill eliminated the political challenge to upzoning. No need to offer MHA as compromise!
The only valid defense of unfunded IZ is political: if it's the only way to get upzones passed, then it may be better than doing nothing. But for middle housing in Seattle, the state bill eliminated the political challenge to upzoning. No need to offer MHA as compromise!
What Bryn said: EXCLUSIVITY SHOULD PAY FOR EXCLUSIVITY What we have now is "growth pays for non-growth"
What Bryn said: EXCLUSIVITY SHOULD PAY FOR EXCLUSIVITY What we have now is "growth pays for non-growth"
The thing is, IZ suppresses ALL kinds of housing development, not just small-scale. This UCLA study estimates that 11% IZ cuts market-rate production by 36%. And just a 0.6% increase in average rents would negate the benefit of the subsidized units. ternercenter.berkeley.edu/research-and-p…
The thing is, IZ suppresses ALL kinds of housing development, not just small-scale. This UCLA study estimates that 11% IZ cuts market-rate production by 36%. And just a 0.6% increase in average rents would negate the benefit of the subsidized units. ternercenter.berkeley.edu/research-and-p… https://t.co/Nzf6HTeBpU
HB 1110 requires cities to upzone for middle housing, but does not require inclusionary zoning. IZ is particulary harmful to small-scale housing and Seattle data shows it. To avoid undermining HB 1110, Seattle must not impose IZ on middle housing. sightline.org/2024/04/18/sea…
HB 1110 requires Seattle to legalize middle housing but politics prevented the bill from prohibiting parking mandates, which are like poison to small-scale multifamily housing. Portland does not mandate parking for middle housing, and the data show why. sightline.org/2024/04/18/sea…
HB 1110 requires Seattle to allow 4plexes and 6plexes, but the city's proposed size cap of FAR 0.9 undermines the state law. It will quash feasiblity for many design options, and any projects that can pencil will have small units. sightline.org/2024/04/18/sea…
The fundamental problem with Seattle's draft Comp Plan is that it doesn't make enough room for more homes. It's based on target of 5,000 new homes per year, when the city has been adding an average of 8,500 over the past 10 years.
The fundamental problem with Seattle's draft Comp Plan is that it doesn't make enough room for more homes. It's based on target of 5,000 new homes per year, when the city has been adding an average of 8,500 over the past 10 years. https://t.co/TJe8zrsHOl
🚨BREAKING: SCIENCE JOINS TEAM YIMBY🚨 scientificamerican.com/article/we-nee…
ADU production took off after Boise's reforms took effect late last year. The two most important barriers eliminated, according locals? - Renters bans (owner occupancy reqs) - Parking mandates It's what you do if you actually want ADUs in your city. sightline.org/2024/04/15/boi…
Hugeasscity got there first. @bmaryman hugeasscity.com/2009/11/15/we-…
Hugeasscity got there first. @bmaryman hugeasscity.com/2009/11/15/we-…
WA's 2024 session may not have been the hoped for Year of Housing v2.0, but kudos to legislators for overcoming the challenges of a short session and passing three good housing abunance bills. @Sightline's rundown here: sightline.org/2024/03/28/was… #WAleg #Homes4WA
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America, we have a problem. According to the government's own data, individual homebuyers have outmuscled investors over the last eight years-- gaining market share and pushing up the homeownership rate to some of the highest levels in history outside of the bubble / GFC years.…
1) It is incredible to see a mansion-only area upzoned to 8-12 stories, at the stroke of a pen. 2) It is even more Incredible that 95% of our mansion areas, include much of the UEL, still permit just four-plexes.
All communities have a role to play to help solve the housing crisis - including the University Endowment Lands. Thank you to Minister @AnneKangMLA for your leadership to help enable 4-6 homes on single detached lots and build more homes near transit. 👇🏾 universityendowmentlands.gov.bc.ca/businessservic…
You think housing prices will keep going up because you've seen it all your life. But this is a historic anomaly that is likely to reverse soon: Prices might start shrinking in many places. This thread is the case against investing in housing:
Austin's current minimum lot size of 5,750 square feet was established in 1946 and has been locking less affluent Austinites out of fee simple homeownership ever since, up to the point where today, the rule is preventing the development of tens of thousands of homes.
Based on analysis done by @cedarbuild, lowering the minimum lot size further from 2000 -> 1500 sqft will nearly double the number of developable plots in Austin. This will unlock 31,186 parcels that can be developed with 3 homes!
it’s wild that coastal cities have spent years debating if YIMBY policies will lower rents, and Austin just… did it they streamlined permitting, upzoned most of the city, and eliminated parking mandates. Tons of housing is going up and rents are plummeting. YIMBY policies work
BREAKING: @MayorofSeattle is seeking to exempt projects in Downtown Seattle (and immediate surrounding areas) from Design Review! This will speed up permitting in these areas during the trial 3 year period. 🥳🥳🥳
Big day today - @GovofCO signed leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb24-1007 to eliminate discriminatory occupancy limits statewide! This is the first of this year's land use and housing bills to cross the finish line. It is near and dear to me professionally and personally (a thread)
Governor Polis just signed a new law passed by #coleg to end unfair occupancy limits in Colorado. More housing now! #copolitics
I feel like, after decades of screaming into the void, the dam is finally beginning to break: Car culture and driving mandates are killing the United States, and we have to end them both. scientificamerican.com/article/we-nee…
Colorado: 1st state to end parking mandates by judicial ruling (1959) before reversing itself (1975) This afternoon, it became 1st state to see a bill repealing all parking mandates within metro areas pass a legislative house (35-26) leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb24-1304 🤯 on to the Senate
Colorado just adopted legislation that will forbid local governments from passing arbitrary, discriminatory limits on the number of people who can live together, above and beyond actual health/safety considerations. Good stuff! westernslopenow.com/colorado-news/…
If you want this map EMAIL YOUR COUNCILMEMBER! And Woo and Nelson! They read and print every email, and categorize every email. At this point there are few things more valuable than emailing your councilmember.
We were this close to greatness. Look at Queen Anne, Central District, North of Capitol Hill, all those corridors extending multiple blocks beyond busy corridors. If the mayor didn't kill it we could've built a real city.
Is there a housing supply shortage in the US? In a new article in @HousPolDebate, I investigate this question, arguing that: —Increasing housing supply is a core path to improved housing conditions —More supply is associated with less housing cost growth tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Some personal news, as they say. Thrilled to be joining the team and to have the chance to build on a great legacy.
Big news! EOI is very excited to announce our new Executive Director, @rianwatt! Learn more about Rian and why we're so excited to welcome him to our team. bit.ly/eoi-new-ed
In a shocking 9-0 decision, the US Supreme Court this morning ended California's post-Prop-13 era of insanely high fees on housing development. Now it's up to housing advocates to remake fee law in their own image. latimes.com/politics/story…
New post TL;DR: @LausterNa and I estimate that planning decisions preventing recent apartment buildings in YVR from being 20% taller are resulting in an annual redistribution of half a billion dollars from renters to existing landlords via higher rents. doodles.mountainmath.ca/blog/2024/04/1…
Under two laws I sponsored in 2019 & 2020, sixty-six Washington cities took actions to allow more housing, fight the housing shortage, & promote housing affordability. More work remains! #waleg washingtonstatestandard.com/2024/04/09/how…
Let's take a look at how the so-called #OneSeattle plan manage to water down the already tepid & uninspired "Alternative 2" the city studied (despite hearing overwhelming preference for Alternative 6!) @SeattleOPCD does not make this easy, with no usable mapping data, just PDFs.
I've called the #oneseattle plan a rebrand of the Urban Village strategy with one new element--the 'Neighborhood Center'. Rewind to the '94 Plan, there they are as 'Neighborhood Anchors.' 30 years later we still refuse to recognize the value of these places and let them blossom.
I'm excited to share a new @UCLALewisCenter report, published in partnership with @TernerHousing, exploring some of the tradeoffs involved in the use of inclusionary zoning (IZ) policies to meet affordable housing goals. ternercenter.berkeley.edu/research-and-p…
If this is true, that for every IZ unit you lose 4 market rate units, then the effects of IZ are worse than previously known. An affordable unit has twice the anti-displacement impact of a market rate unit. That means IZ is itself cutting antidisplacement potential in half.
4. Holding TOC bonuses constant, higher inclusionary zoning requirements come at significant cost. At best, every below-market unit produced by IZ reduces market-rate production by more than 4 units. At higher IZ, this "exchange rate" climbs to almost 9-to-1.
NEW Government publication reveals that the second staircase rules which have blocked thousands of homes had costs that exceeded the benefits by £2.7 BILLION. We call for an urgent cross-party consensus to repeal them
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