> and you can't replace half a city block's worth of two- and three-flat dwellings It is funny because here in the Puget Sound, if we had two and three flat dw

> and you can't replace half a city block's worth of two- and three-flat dwellings It is funny because here in the Puget Sound, if we had two and three flat dwellings that would be a major improvement over the bullshit we have now. Like seriously, 3 story flats would be a dream for density and alleviate much of the area's high house prices. Unfortunately due to a confluence of factors there are only two types of "density" being built around here: 1. Giant apartment blocks owned by multi-national investment firms where the rent goes up by LOL each year that exist just to drain money out of the community. 2. Awful 4 story townhouses that are inappropriate for anyone who has small children, or knees that aren't perfect. Also because of reasons, the townhomes don't have usable yards (they have to be set in the lot such a way that neither the front or back are usable), and they can only be built in a few designated "upzoned" areas. Zoning changes are slowly supposed to come that upzone[1] more and more of the city, but if building actual usable housing isn't even possible, just pure zoning changes aren't enough. [1] Where upzoned means not just SFH, but still most of the city will be zoned SFH only.