Seattle's 20-Year housing plan sparks debate

[@Dizzy206]

Can we please stop building cookie cutter apartments/highrises made with the cheapest looking materials. These buildings will represent our city for generations and most of the buildings being made look so generic and uninspiring.

[@ShenpaiWasTaken]

No young people at those meetings

[@Bleach1443]

We are ether busy at work or burnt out after work. That’s the issue these old folks have to much free time on their hands to screw up the future

[@cmdrls212]

they probably happen at 2pm on Monday. exactly designed for the grays to show up

[@Bleach1443]

@@cmdrls212 Many for certain districts were later 5-6 PM but always on a Tuesday. So if the younger person isn’t working night shift most ether just got off work or would need to rush over. These things are never on Weekends

[@SeattleBoatdog]

You think anyone wants your dollar store opinions on anything?

[@SeattleBoatdog]

Whaaaaaaa …. Someone wants special accommodations!

[@harrychang9250]

we need lower taxes !!!!!

[@E4AdventureFilms]

It is wild to me that we just keep slamming in these big housing units, but then invest nothing in infrastructure and act surprised when these towns choke on the influx of people. These planners need to play SimCity as a training exercise or something…

[@Joe-Deere]

Sim City 2000 on Windows 95 was the best

[@E4AdventureFilms]

@@Joe-Deere I still fire it up now and then for fun, I also like to play Command & Conquer for retro throwback fun. C&C might be more accurate to what Seattle is like in present day... LOL

[@Joe-Deere]

@@E4AdventureFilms I wish I still that Windows 95 computer, died sometime around '01 and Windows 2000 didn't have the same Sim City version. 'Reticulating splines' 😂

[@E4AdventureFilms]

@@Joe-Deere with the 15 minute boot up. 😂

[@RubiconV]

When you hire people purely based on their race and not their experience.

[@brandonosborne5070]

What happened to the prior 20 year plan? And the one before that? Now they want another 20 years! Congratulations Seattle, you get what you vote for.

[@cmdrls212]

I thought this was footage of bingo night. shows the demographic that build their homes decades ago, loaded municipalities with the expansion, and now are all up in arms when somebody is doing the same thing they did 😂

[@JYDIVISN]

“We can’t support this density.” “Okay grandma. Let’s get you to bed.”

[@markanthony1481]

Instead of cramming multiple condos onto a lot that once held a single house or constructing poorly built multi-unit buildings that only software engineers can afford, consider implementing some form of rent control! Studio apartments shouldn’t cost over 2k a month!

[@libertytree5352]

This is what voting and hiring based on equity gets you.

[@ThatPNWlyfe]

Infrastructure improvements need to lead this whole conversation. Sewer… map that out completely before shoehorning a development plan and letting builders loose.

[@EnronnSierra]

330k housing only rich tech bros can afford and homeless drug addicts will get free access to.

[@creatorofgods1668]

All old folks need to go. Everyone in the government. Voting should be left to all citizens still contributing to this economy.

[@JulesS-jc5tt]

Prices need to be lowered! Buying and renting!!!! There are places to live just unaffordable

[@mrjunk3203]

All this does is minimize the growth potential, hurting the future of the region and younger generation Incompetent

[@darkrider962]

We have a housing crisis and Seattle desperately needs to upzone more areas to maximize density and growth potential. For such a large city, Seattle has an extremely backwards and small town zoning philsophy, and NIMBYs have _way_ too much control over what does or doesn't get built. Look up to Vancouver to see what smart progressive upzoning and transit oriented development done right looks like! Now that's how a large modern city should do it.

[@Prxyshj]

Nah we need to lower density

[@jdhasty8660]

It’s Seattle. They don’t have what it takes to keep a goddamn goldfish alive for a week. Please spare me.

[@Prxyshj]

We need less housing and less density. A smaller Seattle was way better

[@MaxMautner]

Donna Braskie career repertoire is exactly why the status quo is completely effed.

[@kevinpark86]

just stop all this nonsense! you guys are just gonna raise more taxes!

[@Pam-y7y]

No. Needing mental health treatment prior to housing

[@creatorofgods1668]

Old folks want tiny homes on vacant lots when you become HOMELESS. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@adamc760]

Good ol’ Seattle. No real plan. Just keep throwing taxpayer money at problems and hope they resolve themselves. What a dump.

[@Leo_Vasileio]

Stop with the insane zoning laws. Build like vancouver bc. Uppppp

[@manoharyadav9121]

STAY WARM STAY COZY STAY HAPPY, EAT HEALTHY, GOD BLESS YOU ALL AND YOUR FAMILIES 👪 ❤❤❤

[@trepiqous5596]

@@manoharyadav9121 thank you! Right back at you 🥰

[@PR0PHESY]

YESSS!! 400k condos at 1000 square ft. LETS GO!! 5 years ago would’ve been a 3 bedroom 2000 square foot home, why would I want that? I’d rather live 5 floors up with half the space and the rush of not getting mugged outside my building duh 😂😂😁

[@jonk5559]

Juat ask gavin newsome how he solved his housing problem in san fransisco then all of california 😂

[@charlesm6994]

Rent control goes way further then housing initiatives

[@HurricaneJahya]

Not perfect, but it's something so I'll take it.

[@toddanderson572]

Seattle is lost

[@chrisaycock5965]

There's a concrete example of what happens when you get in the way of housing. Look here to San Francisco, San Jose or LA. You want worse crime and homelessness? That's the alternative.

[@jek585]

Thank you for covering this important topic! Having read up on details and attended some of the meetings, it's pretty clear this seems like a move to get a political notch in their belt rather than a calculated decision in the best interest of the city. Basics like a traffic simulation for areas with chokepoints haven't been covered. Adding 10% to traffic doesn't make it 10% worse, it makes it *much* worse. These folks point to buses, but then drive away in their cars. I wouldn't blame them, but this meeting was in an area deemed "transit hub" in the rezoning plan. They should walk the walk.

[@grimey78]

Most affordable housing is built for senior citizens who have had plenty of opportunity to buy homes. Im glad i pay over 250$ a check to fund these geriatric NIMBY's retirement while I cant even get a studio apartment 30 miles outside city limits 😂

[@Prxyshj]

You don’t pay anything pipe down

[@VinceYoutubr]

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[@marcusinfinity9386]

This city is a matriarchal joke

[@evrenmi]

These folks are off their rockers

[@joshyoung5160]

You want a workable housing plan? Stop building and make what you have affordable. Don't knock it till you try it.

[@gilbert_deleon]

1 - Remove the Affordable House Fee, which is now around $15 per sqft in Seattle when building a house and drives the price up. 2 - Change the zoning in all the city that are NR to MR or HR 3 - Speed up construction permits. And enjoy how the developing skyrockets and prices goes down as there are less taxes to build, more area to construct 5 over 1 and faster process for approvals 🏗🏬