28.75% - More units of any type — luxury or workforce — add to the overall housing stock and soften prices region-wide. It works slowly and imperfectly, but that's how supply-side dynamics function.
13.75% - Roads degrade from freeze-thaw cycles, sun, and moisture regardless of traffic, but heavy vehicles dramatically accelerate that baseline degradation — bikes barely register.
13.75% - Duplexes, triplexes, townhouses, and mid-rise apartments should be the baseline across Seattle — upzoning as the default, let the market build what people need.
11.25% - Developers build luxury first because margins are better in constrained markets — loosen zoning so they have to compete, and the whole market eventually moves downmarket.
11.25% - Dismissing criticism as an example of “Cancel Culture” risks chilling useful discussion.
11.25% - Luxury buildings draw high earners out of older stock, freeing those units for middle-income renters — filtering works directionally even if it's not perfect.
10.00% - The housing crisis is a supply problem — build more housing; don't restrict it or regulate it into unaffordability.
Increasing housing density puts downward pressure on housing costs.
25.00% - Duplexes, triplexes, townhouses, and mid-rise apartments should be the baseline across Seattle — upzoning as the default, let the market build what people need.
23.13% - More units of any type — luxury or workforce — add to the overall housing stock and soften prices region-wide. It works slowly and imperfectly, but that's how supply-side dynamics function.
12.50% - Roads degrade from freeze-thaw cycles, sun, and moisture regardless of traffic, but heavy vehicles dramatically accelerate that baseline degradation — bikes barely register.
12.50% - Developers build luxury first because margins are better in constrained markets — loosen zoning so they have to compete, and the whole market eventually moves downmarket.
9.38% - Gentrification replaces affordable units with premium ones — even when total unit count stays flat, the mix shifts against lower-income residents; volume matters, but so does affordability distribution.
6.25% - The housing crisis is a supply problem — build more housing; don't restrict it or regulate it into unaffordability.
25.00% - Increasing housing density puts downward pressure on housing costs.
25.00% - More housing units of any type put downward pressure on rents over time.
0.00% - Increasing housing density is an effective way of decreasing cost
50.00% - 2008 financial crisis
