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Washington State is considering removing single family zoning. No, no they are not. Washington state has more than Seattle in it. It has rural areas, and mou
by b112 5y ago
Washington State is considering removing single family zoning.
No, no they are not.
Washington state has more than Seattle in it. It has rural areas, and mountainous regions, and no, every house in a rural area is not on agriculturally zoned land.
Nor does it make sense to have multidwelling houses, miles apart from each other.
I think, as others in this thread have stated, you are mistaking musings, ponderings, and "feelz good" ideas for serious discourse.
I support public housing, but that has zero bearing on changing the housing market. Which, I may add, is in a tiny, temporary inflated bubble. A decade ago, it was still recovering from the largest crash in modern history.
In terms of public housing, as land value increases, so do property taxes.
Thus, municipalities then have more funds to... build and maintain public housing! Which means that housing costs do not change the percentage of a city's budgetary costs, to build and maintain public housing.
- turtledove 5y agohttps://mynorthwest.com/3284239/ross-gov-inslee-plan-move-beyond-single-family-zoning-homeless-crisis/ https://mynorthwest.com/3284239/ross-gov-inslee-plan-move-be... Yes, Washington State is considering this. Yes, it's back on the drawing board, but it's very much in active discussion at the state level.
- b112 5y agoInteresting, I get it now. They have "area zoning", which says "only single family homes may exist here". Thus, changing this won't ban single family dwellings. Only enable other types of dwellings. A strange concept, but OK. Understood, thanks.