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Fixing Puget Sound region’s growing pains It’s no secret that the Puget Sound region has a housing and traffic problem, but some local and regional lawmakers say regional policy for managing it may need some fine-tuning to help alleviate h…

Opinion | Affordable Housing Is Your Spare Bedroom Wasted spaces of single-family homes — backyards, unused offices — could be zoned as shared space.

Dorm Living for Professionals Comes to San Francisco San Francisco's middle class, including teachers, copywriters and others, are engaging in an unusual experiment in communal living. Starcity, a new developer, is creating dorm rooms expressly for them.

Seattle-area rents drop significantly for first time this decade as new apartments sit empty With rent hikes already slowing down and even more apartments set to open in 2018 and 2019, renters will gain more power to negotiate with landlords.

Seattle’s Housing Crisis: Encouraging better development | BUILD Blog Seattle is currently experiencing unprecedented population growth along with record setting development. This is challenging the city’s growth management and it’s bringing city zoning and building code decisions to the forefront of the discussion. As architects and Seattleites deeply concerned with…

Are Micro-Apartments a Good Solution to the Affordable-Housing Crisis? - The New Yorker Are tiny living spaces in New York a good idea, or a step back to the nineteenth century? Elizabeth Greenspan reports on the debate.