Seattle here. Unfortunately, "a lot" isn't useful - as you point out, it's relative to demand. Sure, it's not AS BAD as SF, but it's still very bad. I believe I

Seattle here. Unfortunately, "a lot" isn't useful - as you point out, it's relative to demand. Sure, it's not AS BAD as SF, but it's still very bad. I believe I saw an estimate that the city alone would have 200k more bedrooms now if not for all the morass of crap that stops upward growth. And that also means there'd be tens of thousands fewer homes built out at the edges, saving farmland, reducing energy costs of transportation, reducing CO2...