Will Up-Zoning Make Housing More Affordable?
Making neighborhoods denser is an idea with growing appeal. The question is whether it works.
June 17, 2019 • Seattle’s housing market has been red-hot for almost a decade. Across the Northwest’s largest metropolitan area, real estate is not only expensive, upward of a million dollars for homes in some of the nicest enclaves, but often sells in a matter of days.
A complex of forces the growth of Amazon, the technological might of Microsoft, the jobs those companies bring and a dearth of available real estate has made Seattle one of the costliest housing markets in the country. Only San Francisco and Las Vegas have outpaced Seattle in rising home prices in the last six years, according to the Case-Shiller Home Price Indices report. It’s not just home-buying that has been expensive, but also renting. The rental market may have cooled some in the last year, but that’s after years of i
Western Washington business owners, industry leaders fear return of Phase 2 restrictions
For many, cutting already limited capacity would be functionally like closing again, which could cost jobs, one business group says. Author: Steve Soliz Updated: 11:57 PM PDT April 28, 2021
SEATTLE As counties across Washington face the possibility of shifting to stricter restrictions brought by the pandemic, restaurant owners are concerned what that might do to their struggling businesses. While western Washington experiences a fourth wave of COVID-19 cases, there is a fear there could be another wave of worker layoffs and restaurant closures.
Under Phase 3 restrictions, restaurants are allowed to open their indoor seating at 50% capacity. With a shift to Phase 2 restrictions, restaurants would be forced to cap their indoor dining capacity at 25%.
The Tablet April 21, 2021
UPPER EAST SIDE Renoir, da Vinci, Gris, Degas … Yuricic, Carbonell, and Jurgens?
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which features a collection that includes more than two million works of art spanning 5,000 years, now includes three Mary Louis Academy students’ artwork on display.
Seniors Mahalia Carbonell, Rebecca Jurgens, and Sabina Yuricic won Gold Key Awards in the 2021 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, the longest-running and most prestigious recognition program for creative teens in the United States.
“Thalassophobia” by Sabina Yuricic (Photo: Courtesy of Scholastic)
As a result, their framed work now hangs alongside nearly 250 other works of art created by New York City teens.
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It s a recipe for disaster.
That s what Seattle parent Serena Evans thinks of the situation unfolding outside Broadview-Thompson Elementary School in the city s Bitter Lake neighborhood.
A homeless encampment has spilled over onto school property, and despite complaints, the school board refuses to do anything about it.
Parents like Evans are worried about safety and say their children, some as young as 5, are too scared to go in. Others are playing near the edge of the encampment, stepping on condom wrappers, broken bottles, and trash. I knew it had gotten bad, but I didn t realize how out of control it was, Evans told KIRO7. To have my daughter running around not to pass judgment but usually with homeless encampments, there are drugs which mean needles.