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Michael Andersen

Michael Andersen is Director, Cities and Towns with Sightline Institute. Since 2006, he has been writing about ways better municipal policy can help break poverty cycles, with a focus on housing and transportation. Michael’s work before joining Sightline in 2018 included reporting and editing for print and web in Longview and Vancouver, Washington, and Portland, Oregon. He lives in Portland with a beautiful woman, a kid, and a cat. They park their car in the street. Find his latest research here, email him at michael@sightline.org , and follow him on Twitter, Bluesky, or LinkedIn.

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Oregon Has a Chance to Sharply Cut Urban Parking Mandates

This article is part of the series Parking? Lots! Update, July 21: Oregon’s Land Conservation and Development Commission unanimously approved ...
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The Price of Old Homes Depends on the Cost of Building New Homes

Takeaways The only real ceiling on the prices of old homes is the price of new homes competing with them. ...
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Housing Is Popular, Actually

This article is part of the series Legalizing Inexpensive Housing How do people feel about politicians who vote to allow ...
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End Parking Mandates, Get a Free Bus Pass

This article is part of the series The Costs of Parking Mandates Takeaways The Minneapolis transit agency lets landlords provide ...
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Backyard Homes Are Great for Owners of Small Homes

Here’s one way cities can help the owners of small homes: allow more building in backyards. In fast-growing areas like the cities of the Pacific Northwest, ...
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Bogus “Historic” Districts: The New Exclusionary Zoning?

Takeaways Historic districts could become a more common exclusionary tool: US history suggests that when the public wins one victory ...
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Five Lessons from California’s Big Zoning Reform

This article is part of the series Legalizing Inexpensive Housing Update 9/16: Senate Bill 9 is now law. Urban housing ...
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Eight Ingredients for a State-Level Zoning Reform

This article is part of the series Legalizing Inexpensive Housing In 2019, Oregon passed a first-of-its-kind state law that ordered ...
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How to Tear Down the Invisible Walls in Your City’s Zoning Code

This article is part of the series Legalizing Inexpensive Housing This is a sidebar to Sightline’s history of the passage ...
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The Eight Deaths of Portland’s Residential Infill Project

This article is part of the series Legalizing Inexpensive Housing In 2021, Portland became the largest modern U.S. city to ...
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We Ran the Rent Numbers on Portland’s 7 Newly Legal Home Options

This article is part of the series Legalizing Inexpensive Housing After a seven-year campaign, Portland on Sunday formally lifted a ...
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States Must Reform Zoning Because No City Can End a Shortage Alone

This article is part of the series Legalizing Inexpensive Housing After decades of impasse in a thousand city halls, housing ...
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