How is adding 5,000 units of housing going to make housing more expensive?

You know what makes housing expensive? less supply than demand. You know what impedes supply? people urging the delay of permitting.

Good.

Seriously, if you want to address homelessness, stop creating ghettos and let people live everywhere in the city. You end up with lower costs and people get a chance to have new contacts that will actually help them get jobs - in Spain Italy and Greece, youth unemployment is around 50 percent, for example, and it's not that great in the US either.

Don't forget the 5,100 new parking spots, which will cause more gridlock downtown than the tunnel. That neighborhood will be an automobile blight for our entire lifetimes. It had so much potential, but now they're kicking everyone out to build 10 Walmarts worth of parking right next to brand new light rail, brand new streetcar, commuter rail, and about 50 bus lines (that will all be stuck in traffic).

More housing = more affordable housing, it really is that simple. Anyone truly interested in affordable housing for the masses should be applauding any effort to get that many more units on the market. The article shows that many of the complaints really don't have to do with affordable housing, it seems.

@5 Seattle is at least a lifetime away from being a City where most can be carfree like say a New York or Toyko. This is especially true of the working poor/middle class with families who lack the time to negotiate our inefficient transit system to get to distant jobs or deal with kid shit like soccer games in far flung areas.

Your single hipster type slinging coffee in the kind of places that don't hire middle aged Hispanic women with mediocre English can do it. They can't.

So how about we make sure they have a place to park so maybe they'll be less likely to have to also deal with the shit that comes with relying on street parking. Like parking tickets and theft.