Comment by Schiendelman
21 hours ago
It's honestly not that much. I know it looks good when comparing to recent years, but it doesn't look as good when you look at regional numbers (the city limits don't matter much in a housing market) - and the number of ADUs you can build in the entire city in a year is lower than some single new apartment buildings. We aren't keeping up with demand, much less drawing down the likely hundreds of thousands (seriously) of units we need to allow.
That's a different goal post. Seattle is doing things to encourage building housing. Full stop. Which refutes the claim made.
Whether Seattle is building enough housing, or whether the region is doing enough to encourage housing development are separate claims.