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Talking Housing Affordability: Getting from “Me” to “We”
Editor’s note: This is the first of several housing affordability messaging recommendations resulting from Sightline focus group testing. Sightline has conducted two rounds of focus groups (six groups in all) to explore Seattleites’ attitudes about affordability. In the first round we recruited groups of moderate- to low-income homeowners and renters. Participants were screened to be politically moderate or progressive, Seattle residents for at least five years, fairly neutral about housing...Read more » -
Listen In: KUOW’s ‘The Record’ on Living Car-Free in Seattle
On Monday, the Seattle City Council voted to allow more parking-free development in the city. Council members characterized the changes as small steps in the city’s quest to make housing more affordable and to shift people away from their cars. Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkin said she would sign the legislation into law. In the wake of this news, Sightline Executive Director Alan Durning appeared on Tuesday’s episode of KUOW’s The...Read more » -
Empower Happy Hour: A Video Recap
Empower Happy Hour attendees mingle before presentations begin, by Reagan Ashley (used with permission)
Earlier this month, Sightline executive director Alan Durning joined leaders from across Seattle to kick off 2018 with an energizing, solutions-centered happy hour conversation. Six area change-makers took just ten minutes each to discuss their visions for the new year, as well as their past accomplishments in fields ranging from small business consulting to sustainable building design to, in Sightline’s case, bold public policy thinking. Check out Alan’s talk below,...Read more » -
Event: Empower Happy Hour in Seattle
Empower Happy Hour Seattle Central Public Library (map) Wednesday, January 10, 2018, 4:00 pm – 6:30 pm (Complimentary beer and wine before 4:30 pm) Join Sightline executive director Alan Durning in the new year to highlight and celebrate Sightline’s policy wins in 2017 and discuss ways Cascadia can move sustainable policy solutions forward in 2018. Alan will join other influential speakers around Cascadia in a fast-paced, fun-filled, empower hour, featuring...Read more » -
The Best of Sightline in 2017
2017 was a big year. We dedicated even more time researching solutions to create affordable housing in Cascadia and watched a few neighborhoods in Seattle adopt major upzones with affordability requirements. British Columbia expanded its existing carbon tax to cover more pollution and to raise its price. And the Thin Green Line only grew stronger. The continent’s largest oil-by-rail project proposal in Vancouver, Washington is on the cusp of rejection; key permits...Read more » -
Listen In: ‘There Goes the Neighborhood’
Can we build our way out of this housing crisis? How do we define affordability? What is the impact of foreign investments on the housing market? And how do cities avoid becoming places for the wealthy few? To cap KCRW-WNYC’s “There Goes the Neighborhood” podcast season, Sightline’s executive director Alan Durning joined other housing experts to discuss solutions to high housing costs and gentrification in Los Angeles and beyond. The panel...Read more » -
Video: Building the Affordable City
Can cities build their way to affordability? How do metropolitan cities deal with rapid growth and change? And what is the YIMBY movement? Earlier this fall, Sightline welcomed two leading voices on urbanism, Kim-Mai Cutler and Daniel Kay Hertz, to Seattle to discuss these questions and report on housing lessons learned in their respective cities. Below is a video of the event for those who were unable to attend (and for those who...Read more » -
Video: How to Build an Inclusive and Livable Puget Sound
Last month, Sightline executive director Alan Durning joined Seattle mayoral candidates Cary Moon and Jenny Durkan, and Seattle city council candidate Teresa Mosqueda on a panel at the Built Green Conference. Together, they discuss and debate how to make housing more affordable in the region, Seattle’s exclusive real estate and zoning history, and the intersections of green building, affordability, equity, and building policy.Read more » -
Event: Building Green in Cascadia
On Thursday September 14, Sightline executive director Alan Durning will keynote the Built Green Conference and discuss the intersections of green building, affordability, equity, and building policy. The Built Green Conference has been convening annually for over a decade and has provided valuable information to support green building and sustainability to builders, policymakers, and the general public in Washington’s King and Snohomish Counties. Leaders in the movement will present on a...Read more » -
Map: Where Multi-Family Homes Make Seattle Neighborhoods More Affordable
This is Elisa Coghlan and Devin Porter. She is a librarian and he a graphic designer. (You’ve seen his charts in Sightline publications for years.) They’re pictured in the house they rented in Seattle from 2008 to 2014. It was at 1701 Northwest 65th Street, in Ballard. It was a typical, vintage Seattle house, built in 1916. If you’ve been in Cascadia for long, you’ve seen many like it. Devin...Read more »
