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No, we have a lot of the same problems as SF.
by lazyasciiart 3y ago
No, we have a lot of the same problems as SF.
- seanmcdirmid 3y agoWe have much more construction than SF. We built roughly 60k units in the last 10 years, a 19% increase. And that is just for Seattle. > Among the 50 U.S. cities with the largest number of housing units in 2010, Seattle ranks third for the rate of growth in housing. See https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/data/central-seattle-absorbed-more-than-half-the-citys-housing-growth-in-the-last-decade https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/data/central-seatt... We build as well as any Texan free for all city does.
- lazyasciiart 3y agoIf you want to be mindlessly simplistic, we have the exact same problem as SF: we are not building enough units to meet demand. Otherwise, we have many of the same underlying problems that are preventing us from building enough units. Zoning, permitting, design review, building codes...