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"Now that I live here, nobody else can."
by gk1 8y ago
"Now that I live here, nobody else can."
- adventured 8y agoExactly that. I was reading today that ~66% of Seattle's residential housing is single-family homes. Boston by comparison is 14%. It's absurd. And then so many people in Seattle want to complain about plunging affordability. "Seattle homeowners have vigorously fought changes to zoning laws that would increase density on the grounds that it would alter the character of neighborhoods filled with picturesque (if small) craftsman-style bungalows." https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-08-30/how-big-tech-swallowed-seattle?srnd=businessweek-v2 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-08-30/how-big-t...