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The Hidden Costs of “Over-Parking” Our Cities
The hidden costs of over-parking our cities: Excessive parking rules put cars before people–hiking home prices and pollution.Read more » -
Family Forest Owners Could Champion Carbon Drawdown
Family forest owners could lead on climate-smart forestry with public mechanisms to incentivize carbon drawdown practices.Read more » -
How to Recover Washington’s Economy Without Waiting on the Feds
Carbon tax-based bonds are well suited for Washington’s economy to recover while meeting climate and equity goals, building resilience, filling budget gaps, and creating jobs.Read more » -
Montana’s Battle for Mail-in Elections
Montana conducted its first statewide all-by-mail election in June, and saw the best voter turnout in a primary in nearly 50 years, the highest in a primary since 1972. But there’s work to be done to make voting access equitable for tribal communities.Read more » -
Election? Done! Next? Onward!
Sightline Institute has helped forge a path of progress toward an environmentally sound, economically vibrant, and socially just Pacific Northwest.Read more » -
A Green Voter’s Guide to Cascadia’s 2020 Election Results
Perhaps you’ve heard that the United States held an election recently. As the dust clears and local, state, and federal ballots are counted, Sightline’s team of researchers is using this page to tell you how the results matter to sustainability issues here in the Pacific Northwest. Seattle bus service was on the ballot; it won. Housing reform in Portland got a mixed result at city council. Montana took a rightward...Read more » -
California’s Home Shortage is Making Everyone Else’s Worse
California’s repeated failure to strike down local bans on close-in housing has an incalculable number of victims. But 13 million of them live in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. Year after year, through booms and busts, California sends a one-way jet stream of people moving north to Cascadia. If comparable numbers of people were instead able to flow in both directions, those Northwest states would find it much easier to build...Read more » -
Will the Federal Hammer Come Down on Apartment Bans?
With a conversation about zoning to lift apartment bans going mainstream at the national level and households across the country suffering from COVID’s devastation, the stage has never been better set for Congress to act.Read more » -
Five Steps to Prevent Displacement
Protect tenants. Upzone for reparations. And 3 more steps for communities to build abundant housing, invest in affordability, and avoid displacement.Read more » -
Things I Hope Never Come Back After the Pandemic #3: The Hegemony of Fossil Fuels
Sightline Institute executive director Alan Durning on the fossil fuel industry’s flagging hegemony and the impacts of #COVID-19: “Their economic power is crumbling. How soon will their political power follow?”Read more »