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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(136,432 posts) Tue Apr 21, 2026, 09:04 PM 20 hrs ago

'Taller, denser, faster': Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson announces plan to supercharge city's housing growth

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson is doing everything in her power to speed up housing development in the city.

Wilson told “The John Curley Show” on KIRO Newsradio she recently announced a new housing initiative to boost the city’s growth plan.

“We’re calling it taller, denser, faster,” she said. “And so basically, we’re kind of supercharging the next couple of phases of our comp plan to basically propose allowing more multi-family building near frequent transit, and more growth centers around the city where you can build higher buildings.”

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson outlines plan to boost housing

Wilson explained the plan is an effort to allow the private market to increase the city’s stock of market-rate housing. She acknowledged the project won’t automatically make housing affordable, but it will help in the long term. At the same time, Wilson said the city’s social housing developer is getting started, fueled by revenue from a tax on large corporations.

https://mynorthwest.com/john-curley/seattle-mayor-katie-wilson-4/4230602

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'Taller, denser, faster': Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson announces plan to supercharge city's housing growth (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 20 hrs ago OP

Oh FFS. All they do is build. LisaM 19 hrs ago #1

That kind of dense development ruined my neighborhood in Ballard The Blue Flower 8 hrs ago #2

LisaM

(29,666 posts)

1. Oh FFS. All they do is build.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Apr 21, 2026, 10:24 PM

19 hrs ago

Rents don't go down, there is a glut of expensive apartments, and no restrictions on short term rentals. Living here is expensive and awful.

These small,. expensive apartments are not going to alleviate the housing crisis. And high rises are horrible to live in.

The Blue Flower

(6,537 posts)

2. That kind of dense development ruined my neighborhood in Ballard

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Wed Apr 22, 2026, 09:24 AM

8 hrs ago

3-story condos built in backyards, with rooms so small you couldn't fit furniture into them, but very expensive. Big apartment complexes on every corner. Car traffic on streets and foot traffic on sidewalks became impassable. Single-family homes torn down and construction from corner to corner of what had been front and back yards and tidy lawns. No thanks. And at the same time, homelessness and drug trafficking exploded.

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