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Seattle can prepare for climate change — if it can escape bureaucratic silos
Jim Ellis helped the city with sewage, transportation, and water quality systems. His big, systemic thinking is a model we should follow.
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Cheap, practical, life-saving: Seattle should build more tiny house villages
Built in small clusters, the 8-by-12-foot tiny houses provide shelter, safety and human dignity for people without a home.
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People with disabilities need to get around. Seattle needs to make it easier
City Hall has an opportunity to make the city more livable for all of us — and to fight climate change along the way.
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In Seattle's housing crisis, can backyard cottages help families reconnect?
Recent zoning changes make it easier to build these dwellings. They could mix up the modern middle-class American life.
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Now that the Mercer Mega Block is sold, let's think bigger about public land
The $143.5M sale in South Lake Union will raise millions for affordable housing, but what could Seattle accomplish with a little more imagination?