Fairer Elections in Portland
Fairer Elections in Portland Portlanders are changing their elections and how city hall works for them Every 10 years, the city of Portland reexamines its charter, the document that lays out ...
Author: Bernadette
Yes, Other Countries Are Making More Progress on Housing, Case 4: The United Kingdom and New Zealand
This article is part of the series Winning Abundant Housing Last time, I chronicled France’s success at boosting homebuilding in greater Paris. This time, I look at the industrial world’s ...
Author: Alan Durning
Washington’s Shortage of Homes is Squeezing Communities Throughout the State
Soaring home prices in the tech-booming Seattle metro have been the stuff of headlines for decades. But recently, cities of all sizes throughout Washington state are feeling the pain of ...
Author: Dan Bertolet
How Oregonians Re-legalized ‘Missing Middle’ Homes
OHIO: SECURE VOTE BY MAIL ELECTIONS IN 2020    After a seven-year campaign, Portland formally lifted a series of 97-year-old bans on seven different types of homes. Becoming legal on the vast ...
Author: Webster Chang
Let There Be Housing in Downtown Anchorage
Takeaways The future of a vibrant Anchorage depends on building housing for seniors, families, and people of all incomes downtown. While tourism and the office workforce provide seasonal and workweek ...
Author: Jeannette Lee
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 shortages aren’t just a cause of climate change. They’re a ...
Author: Michael Andersen
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 larger cities and the Portland metro area to rapidly legalize ...
Author: Michael Andersen
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 of Portland’s residential infill project. In August 2021, Oregon’s largest ...
Author: Michael Andersen
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 end so-called “single-family zoning.” What follows here is a history ...
Author: Michael Andersen
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 advocates are looking to statehouses for zoning reform. Many now ...
