Supply goes up, demand stays the same. How exactly would this turn out bad?

Obviously it's closing the barn doors after the horses have left.

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So? All housing adds to supply. If someone moves into that expensive home they are not competing for the cheaper ones anymore and driving up prices.

They already have to move out because prices are insane. There's no option that houses people that doesn't increase density. And this measure would mean things like duplexes which are pretty close to SFH. There's no reason SFH couldn't continue to be built, it would just adjust based on demand.

Please please please make this happen. I'd love to see my SFH neighborhood have duplexes and such. We have huge lots and prices have doubled in 6 years. Townhomes would be lovely. I know they don't have to build pretty, but I think they would anyways. All these custom homes are going in selling for 2mil, so even with townhomes, it's all going to be expensive. But it could be medium high income instead of extremely high income.

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As the value of a single family home skyrockets in response

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Thank you. I agree with your assessment of middle housing. Both the city I live in and the city I work for are starting comprehensive plans this year and are required to address that gap.

https://my.spokanecity.org/news/releases/2022/06/23/pilot-program-proposed-to-accelerate-housing/

Washington state in particular has a crisis of middle housing. Spokanes solution is far from perfect and we need to fix a lot more in our city. And the state of Washington needs to pass statewide legislature as well

I'm curious how Spokane reformed their zoning laws.

Walking pikeplace market on the weekend is an interesting outing. There are many things for sale. Farmers, artists, weavers, all sorts of good things.

It will probably drive up prices for single family homes, but it will also likely mean that more people will have places to live. That's the problem they are trying to solve with this.

Go to the Cuthuli museum.

The TLDR from the article:

A bill at the state Capitol would require cities with at least 6,000 residents to allow quadplex housing on all residential blocks, as well as buildings with six units — also known as sixplexes — in areas close to major transit stops.

On the right track, but now let's allow mixed use.

We should model after Japan where you can business and residential are almost always allowed together. If you own the land and want to sell just 1000 sqft of it, go ahead. If the market wants it, someone will buy it and do something with it.

You often get some cool architecture this way as well. People designing places based on the land instead of cookie cutter houses all built at once.

This is actually an issue and shouldnt be down voted.

Ballard has had to put in a poop tank due to having more poo than it can move.

Seattle will need to build more waste treatment plants for denser living.

Electricity and water is no issue though.

Isn't letting the person decide what you do with your land like... Peak capitalism?

Less government, more freedom?

Bad idea.

There are a lot of families who can't afford (even if the prices dropped) or don't want to own a home.

The majority of houses (not apartments) rented out are by every day people, not corporations. If we got rid of that, you would have a group of people who would not have a place or crammed into apartments.

Many families would get fucked with this.

Legalize tall buildings

Not true. I can own 3 cars and let my children drive them right? Because they may be to young to buy one, or cant afford one. My sarcastic point is that in a free country, we don't need permission from the government to buy anything. If I want and can afford 5 houses, thats between me and my bank. If it's OK for the government to tell you where, when, and how many houses you can buy then what is next?

Spokane is ahead of the west side. We already reformed the bullshit zoning laws. Time for the state to step it up

You clearly don't follow Olympia politics closely. WA is notorious for sloooooow ass rule making. The state Supreme Court mandated that education be fully funded a few years ago and the legislature still hasn't done it.

Location. Location. Location.

Charge them out the yin-yang and when things back-up at the treatment plant, just dump the effluent directly into Puget Sound. In other words, business as usual.