60.00% - Home prices in Seattle are unacceptably high for working people — a city where only the wealthy can afford to stay is worse economically and socially, and that demands a policy response.
40.00% - More housing supply puts downward pressure on prices — Seattle rents keep climbing because demand grows faster than supply.
The housing crisis is fundamentally a supply problem.
17.65% - Home prices in Seattle are unacceptably high for working people — a city where only the wealthy can afford to stay is worse economically and socially, and that demands a policy response.
17.65% - Building codes that add cost to small buildings without proportional safety benefit often exist to protect incumbent housing values, not actual safety.
17.65% - Modern building codes have added real improvements, but some requirements have become excessive and contribute directly to housing unaffordability.
11.76% - More housing supply puts downward pressure on prices — Seattle rents keep climbing because demand grows faster than supply.
11.76% - Cities that want to be progressive should prove it by building housing — local zoning decisions shape who can afford to live there.
11.76% - Restricting development to manage affordability paradoxically makes it worse — more supply, even market-rate supply, moderates prices over time.
11.76% - Manufactured homes cost less and deploy faster than site-built housing — dismissing the entire category while claiming to address the housing crisis is incoherent.
50.00% - The housing crisis is fundamentally a supply problem.
50.00% - Restricting or over-regulating housing supply makes the affordability crisis worse.
0.00% - Lack of affordable housing is primarily an issue of limited supply.
50.00% - Housing crisis