77.50% - The denser a city, the more efficiently it functions — more people sharing infrastructure and public space is how cities create value; sprawl undermines that logic.
22.50% - Most of Seattle should be upzoned — not to highrise density, but to gentle density: duplexes, accessory dwelling units, small apartment buildings.
Single-family zoning is the primary legal instrument behind the housing shortage.
40.22% - The denser a city, the more efficiently it functions — more people sharing infrastructure and public space is how cities create value; sprawl undermines that logic.
38.04% - Most of Seattle should be upzoned — not to highrise density, but to gentle density: duplexes, accessory dwelling units, small apartment buildings.
21.74% - Seventy percent of Seattle's residential land is zoned exclusively for single-family homes — you cannot build out of a housing crisis when most of the city is legally off-limits to anything denser.
50.00% - Single-family zoning is the primary legal instrument behind the housing shortage.
50.00% - The housing shortage starts on the zoning map, where single-family-only rules block most additional households.
0.00% - Single family zoning is an impediment to greater population density.
50.00% - Zoning in the United States
