mayors love dense job growth but never respond with dense housing growth for those jobs to live in

We put in all these extra, fixed development costs on new housing during a period with the lowest interest rates in generations. Then we didn’t remove them when mortgage interest rates rose to 8%. And we were already in a housing deficit.

Not good.

its probably the same for anyone with a home already assuming they can never buy another home even if they can sell theirs

As someone who lives in dense housing on a recently-upzoned spot multiple blocks off a loud-ass freight corridor, I can confidently say it rocks.

Scales well, too.

It's a shame the powers that be are trying to make the city worse. twitter.com/buildhomez/sta…

we need to let cities grow. they are like toddlers. in a blink of an eye you look at them and none of their clothes fit. if we don't allow growth in cities its like trying to fit a toddler into a tailored suit for 10 years praying that they stop growing.

We were this close to greatness. Look at Queen Anne, Central District, North of Capitol Hill, all those corridors extending multiple blocks beyond busy corridors.

If the mayor didn't kill it we could've built a real city.

honestly this is pretty embarrassing for OPCD's director who claimed otherwise

San Francisco is facing the exact same fate — the city’s long history of conservative/cars-first governance converted the downtown into a car sewer for suburban commuters, and now that the Ponzi scheme is in full-scale collapse, nobody seems to want to admit what happened.

this change cut out 20,000 homes

barely “bigger”, more of the “put housing on corridors” variety but yeah this is still pathetic and unsurprising. whats in it for a mayor to go big? nothing. we need planning done at the state or federal level, theres no incentive for local control since its mishandled

cities should have never bulldozed their tax bases to make way for an all-eggs-in-one-basket idea of office commuters paying their municipal bills. this is what happens when planners design cities like TV dinners instead of like a salad where all the ingredients are a healthy mix