Tag: affordable housing

January 11, 2021

Eliminating bike parking requirements for Permanent Supportive Housing just makes sense

“Not accomplishing anything” is how Tim Parham, the Director of Real Estate Development at Plymouth Housing Group described the current requirement to include a secure bike parking room in all of the buildings it constructs as Permanent Supportive Housing. Plymouth Housing Group is one of the largest providers of very low-income housing in Seattle and…
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tagged: affordable housing, bike parking
August 1, 2016

Bike the Vote! Where to drop your ballot (+ NO on the Viaduct Park, YES on housing)

Voter turnout for the August 2 primary is looking very low so far. Don’t miss your chance to help the housing levy scream to victory. And hey, dropping your ballot at a dropbox is a great excuse for a bike ride on a beautiful day. It’s also good practice for ST3 in November. We were…
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tagged: 2016 primary, affordable housing, alaskan way viaduct, kate martin
January 25, 2016

What does HALA have to do with biking? Everything.

There are basically two ways to increase the number of homes in bikeable and walkable neighborhoods. 1: Improve bikeability and walkability in more neighborhoods, or 2: Increase the number of homes in neighborhoods that are already bikeable and walkable. Most talk about bike infrastructure focuses on the first way, and of course that’s very important.…
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tagged: affordable housing, alan durning, ed murray, hala, kshama sawant, move seattle, move seattle levy