We are champions of microhousing. Great lives can happen in small spaces.
April 12, 2025 at 6:10 PM
We are champions of microhousing. Great lives can happen in small spaces.
Seeing self-proclaimed leftists back microhousing because it's fine, people can just go to the park or the library, is an astonishing move.
December 24, 2023 at 9:17 PM
Seeing self-proclaimed leftists back microhousing because it's fine, people can just go to the park or the library, is an astonishing move.
Capitol Hill’s Roy Vue, once ‘saved’ from microhousing fate, sells for $11.5M
Capitol Hill’s Roy Vue, once ‘saved’ from microhousing fate, sells for $11.5M
A Capitol Hill apartment building once at the center of a community effort to save the 1924-era structure from being converted to microhousing has been sold. The Bellevue Ave Roy Vue Apartments building was acquired by Seattle-based real estate investment firm … Continue reading →
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March 25, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Capitol Hill’s Roy Vue, once ‘saved’ from microhousing fate, sells for $11.5M
Bruce Harrell did a press conference thanking state leaders for forcing the city to allow microhousing a decade after he was one of the ones who voted to ban it.
A good example of how the state-city housing relationship can be very beneficial, not combative
A good example of how the state-city housing relationship can be very beneficial, not combative
December 21, 2024 at 8:30 PM
Bruce Harrell did a press conference thanking state leaders for forcing the city to allow microhousing a decade after he was one of the ones who voted to ban it.
A good example of how the state-city housing relationship can be very beneficial, not combative
A good example of how the state-city housing relationship can be very beneficial, not combative
The Bicycle Townhouse works well in groups of 2-6 units. Especially due to its potential for modular, offsite manufacturing. Here I show ways they all can fit on a small lot.
I’m always thinking about how to create the building blocks for walkable communities.
#bicycle #biketown #architecture
I’m always thinking about how to create the building blocks for walkable communities.
#bicycle #biketown #architecture
January 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
The Bicycle Townhouse works well in groups of 2-6 units. Especially due to its potential for modular, offsite manufacturing. Here I show ways they all can fit on a small lot.
I’m always thinking about how to create the building blocks for walkable communities.
#bicycle #biketown #architecture
I’m always thinking about how to create the building blocks for walkable communities.
#bicycle #biketown #architecture
This isn't all HB 2138 does. My favorite bill of the year in Oregon also:
- streamlines lot splits for starter homes
- fully legalizes co-living/microhousing/SROs in all residential zones
- orders the state land use agency to define a model schedule for development fees
- other good stuff
- streamlines lot splits for starter homes
- fully legalizes co-living/microhousing/SROs in all residential zones
- orders the state land use agency to define a model schedule for development fees
- other good stuff
June 4, 2025 at 10:35 PM
This isn't all HB 2138 does. My favorite bill of the year in Oregon also:
- streamlines lot splits for starter homes
- fully legalizes co-living/microhousing/SROs in all residential zones
- orders the state land use agency to define a model schedule for development fees
- other good stuff
- streamlines lot splits for starter homes
- fully legalizes co-living/microhousing/SROs in all residential zones
- orders the state land use agency to define a model schedule for development fees
- other good stuff
help i'm doing adaptive reuse by looking at turning double loaded corridors w/ poorly laid out units into clusterwohnungen (cluster apartments - large apartments with individual lock off suites) instead
www.theurbanist.org/2018/08/10/b...
www.theurbanist.org/2018/08/10/b...
Bring on the Clusterwohnungen - The Urbanist
# A few years ago, Seattle ran an interesting experiment on radically densifying low rise neighborhoods with microhousing--a typology of small, minimal units that provide somewhat affordable rents as ...
www.theurbanist.org
May 29, 2025 at 8:22 PM
help i'm doing adaptive reuse by looking at turning double loaded corridors w/ poorly laid out units into clusterwohnungen (cluster apartments - large apartments with individual lock off suites) instead
www.theurbanist.org/2018/08/10/b...
www.theurbanist.org/2018/08/10/b...
i've been talking about clusterwohnungen/cluster apartments/social lofts for nearly a decade.
i think they're a terrific example of how affordable housers are innovating on types of collective living
i'd love to see more of this in the US
www.theurbanist.org/2018/08/10/b...
i think they're a terrific example of how affordable housers are innovating on types of collective living
i'd love to see more of this in the US
www.theurbanist.org/2018/08/10/b...
Bring on the Clusterwohnungen - The Urbanist
# A few years ago, Seattle ran an interesting experiment on radically densifying low rise neighborhoods with microhousing--a typology of small, minimal units that provide somewhat affordable rents as ...
www.theurbanist.org
April 4, 2025 at 11:18 PM
i've been talking about clusterwohnungen/cluster apartments/social lofts for nearly a decade.
i think they're a terrific example of how affordable housers are innovating on types of collective living
i'd love to see more of this in the US
www.theurbanist.org/2018/08/10/b...
i think they're a terrific example of how affordable housers are innovating on types of collective living
i'd love to see more of this in the US
www.theurbanist.org/2018/08/10/b...
i think another big one is that bike parking requirements for multifamily is way too low (1 space per 4 units) and furthermore seattle also doesn't exempt bicycle parking from charged FAR, except for congregate housing and SEDUs/microhousing
May 25, 2025 at 7:58 PM
i think another big one is that bike parking requirements for multifamily is way too low (1 space per 4 units) and furthermore seattle also doesn't exempt bicycle parking from charged FAR, except for congregate housing and SEDUs/microhousing
Outrageous predatory delay on housing.
Ten years ago NIMBYs convinced Seattle electeds to regulate microhousing out of existence, a mistake that took 10 years and the help of a state bill to fix.
How many people ended up on the street as a result?
neimanarchitects.blogspot.com/2024/11/how-...
Ten years ago NIMBYs convinced Seattle electeds to regulate microhousing out of existence, a mistake that took 10 years and the help of a state bill to fix.
How many people ended up on the street as a result?
neimanarchitects.blogspot.com/2024/11/how-...
How Seattle Un-Killed Microhousing
Today, Liz and I had the unique opportunity to visit the mayor's office for the signing ceremony of new legislation complying with House...
neimanarchitects.blogspot.com
November 21, 2024 at 11:57 PM
Outrageous predatory delay on housing.
Ten years ago NIMBYs convinced Seattle electeds to regulate microhousing out of existence, a mistake that took 10 years and the help of a state bill to fix.
How many people ended up on the street as a result?
neimanarchitects.blogspot.com/2024/11/how-...
Ten years ago NIMBYs convinced Seattle electeds to regulate microhousing out of existence, a mistake that took 10 years and the help of a state bill to fix.
How many people ended up on the street as a result?
neimanarchitects.blogspot.com/2024/11/how-...
I think what the developers are pushing for depends a lot on local circumstances. Like in Seattle the microhousing developers don't like the ADA compliance etc. It's just very nitty gritty.
September 30, 2025 at 5:03 AM
I think what the developers are pushing for depends a lot on local circumstances. Like in Seattle the microhousing developers don't like the ADA compliance etc. It's just very nitty gritty.
Yes, a seemingly popular co-living/microhousing style in Seattle during early 2010s. Similar item to what is highlighted in this blog about microhousing neimanarchitects.blogspot.com/2023/03/seat...
December 17, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Yes, a seemingly popular co-living/microhousing style in Seattle during early 2010s. Similar item to what is highlighted in this blog about microhousing neimanarchitects.blogspot.com/2023/03/seat...
I don’t believe so. It is just that tenants that pay $1500+ are unlikely to be delinquent for some reason than lower income tenants
Microhousing as a new housing type has died recently, David Neiman says part of the reason is tenant protections that hit lower income housing of any kind harder
Microhousing as a new housing type has died recently, David Neiman says part of the reason is tenant protections that hit lower income housing of any kind harder
January 4, 2026 at 12:52 AM
I don’t believe so. It is just that tenants that pay $1500+ are unlikely to be delinquent for some reason than lower income tenants
Microhousing as a new housing type has died recently, David Neiman says part of the reason is tenant protections that hit lower income housing of any kind harder
Microhousing as a new housing type has died recently, David Neiman says part of the reason is tenant protections that hit lower income housing of any kind harder
New single stair proposal in U-District. Get's around the 4 unit/floor limit on single stair by only having 2 units per floor by turning into a microhousing type project with a common kitchen area.
Each bedroom has light on 2 sides, on a 4,317sqft lot, 2.25 FAR, 38 bedrooms, no parking.
Each bedroom has light on 2 sides, on a 4,317sqft lot, 2.25 FAR, 38 bedrooms, no parking.
March 22, 2025 at 6:38 PM
New single stair proposal in U-District. Get's around the 4 unit/floor limit on single stair by only having 2 units per floor by turning into a microhousing type project with a common kitchen area.
Each bedroom has light on 2 sides, on a 4,317sqft lot, 2.25 FAR, 38 bedrooms, no parking.
Each bedroom has light on 2 sides, on a 4,317sqft lot, 2.25 FAR, 38 bedrooms, no parking.
Just realized I’m going to have to mute these putative advocates cos as someone who benefitted from the availability of borderline “microhousing” & desperately could have used it a lot earlier, I cannot with the narrow pov on this.
March 24, 2024 at 7:16 PM
Just realized I’m going to have to mute these putative advocates cos as someone who benefitted from the availability of borderline “microhousing” & desperately could have used it a lot earlier, I cannot with the narrow pov on this.
Notably, Alan Graham is quoted in strong support of Sunrise. Graham is an archetypal old-Texas Christian, one who actually does the work. Left a career in real estate to start Mobile Loaves & Fishes, now lives in Community First! Village, the microhousing development he created for the unhoused.
November 28, 2024 at 2:00 PM
Notably, Alan Graham is quoted in strong support of Sunrise. Graham is an archetypal old-Texas Christian, one who actually does the work. Left a career in real estate to start Mobile Loaves & Fishes, now lives in Community First! Village, the microhousing development he created for the unhoused.
In middle school I started a book about a group of freedom fighters that were using microhousing andsuper efficient farming to upend the power structures of a corporatocracy. The first chapter was mostly just design specs in first person. I drew schematics.
September 28, 2023 at 9:31 PM
In middle school I started a book about a group of freedom fighters that were using microhousing andsuper efficient farming to upend the power structures of a corporatocracy. The first chapter was mostly just design specs in first person. I drew schematics.
completely agree. i actually find the microhousing we already build as a much better SRO option than this conversion
November 7, 2024 at 4:44 PM
completely agree. i actually find the microhousing we already build as a much better SRO option than this conversion
high $/sf for microhousing may look good in a spreadsheet, but then the reality is they have high turnover because people hate them and many sit vacant and you lose money. meanwhile the 'lower' $/sf of a 2 or 3BD has a strong market of renters and they're snatched up FAST at HIGH DOLLAR
September 10, 2024 at 4:58 PM
high $/sf for microhousing may look good in a spreadsheet, but then the reality is they have high turnover because people hate them and many sit vacant and you lose money. meanwhile the 'lower' $/sf of a 2 or 3BD has a strong market of renters and they're snatched up FAST at HIGH DOLLAR
Essentially, housing is made expensive because it is more advantageous to hire suppressed educated labor internationally, and a solution to US labor housing woes is already being generated.
#Microhousing, #vanlife, #digitalnomad.
You are being asked to leave the country by market pressures.
#Microhousing, #vanlife, #digitalnomad.
You are being asked to leave the country by market pressures.
In 2024, markets are decidedly international which makes US generated laborers less valuable bc we are less grateful and precarious.
The goal is to convince people to leave the land and take their US capital to already gentrification areas of other countries internationally.
The digital nomad.
The goal is to convince people to leave the land and take their US capital to already gentrification areas of other countries internationally.
The digital nomad.
Housing is deliberately made expensive to incentivize residents to vacate land as a warning before the violent evictions.
The "development and renewal" or "civilizing" effort comes in after to make the space palatable to a certain status of person. The good employee.
The "development and renewal" or "civilizing" effort comes in after to make the space palatable to a certain status of person. The good employee.
May 13, 2024 at 5:31 PM
Essentially, housing is made expensive because it is more advantageous to hire suppressed educated labor internationally, and a solution to US labor housing woes is already being generated.
#Microhousing, #vanlife, #digitalnomad.
You are being asked to leave the country by market pressures.
#Microhousing, #vanlife, #digitalnomad.
You are being asked to leave the country by market pressures.
And here's why it's legit to say that Seattle's 10 year ban on microhousing that likely sacrificed hundreds if not thousands of apartments literally made more people homeless:
www.sightline.org/2022/03/16/h...
www.sightline.org/2022/03/16/h...
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem - Sightline Institute
The problem of homelessness has steadily worsened across the United States in recent decades, but some cities and metro regions have fared far worse than others. A new book by University of Washington...
www.sightline.org
November 22, 2024 at 12:07 AM
And here's why it's legit to say that Seattle's 10 year ban on microhousing that likely sacrificed hundreds if not thousands of apartments literally made more people homeless:
www.sightline.org/2022/03/16/h...
www.sightline.org/2022/03/16/h...
when we build homes the smaller they are the higher $/sf (bobby & i debated on this too). banks love that shit, but really, high $/sf is either a luxury penthouse (small market) or really small units (microhousing has some of the highest $/sf). it seems like a silly figure.
September 10, 2024 at 4:57 PM
when we build homes the smaller they are the higher $/sf (bobby & i debated on this too). banks love that shit, but really, high $/sf is either a luxury penthouse (small market) or really small units (microhousing has some of the highest $/sf). it seems like a silly figure.
Tucson and Phoenix ranked No. 9 and No. 16, respectively, among the top 100 cities in the nation and No. 7 and No. 10, respectively, among cities in the West for their share of microhousing.
Microhomes gain traction in Phoenix, city ranks top 20 in US for tiny living spaces
Microhomes, which are roughly 400 square feet or less, are steadily becoming a trend, specifically in cities with high housing costs and limited space.
www.abc15.com
May 26, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Tucson and Phoenix ranked No. 9 and No. 16, respectively, among the top 100 cities in the nation and No. 7 and No. 10, respectively, among cities in the West for their share of microhousing.
Maginnis’s vision: 3,300 micro-units by 2035! Starting with a 250-unit pilot near Scaleybark in 2026. Affordable, compact homes for Charlotte’s future. Check out our Substack:
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Tell us your housing needs at www.maginnisformayor.org! #MaginnisForMayor #MicroHousing
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Tell us your housing needs at www.maginnisformayor.org! #MaginnisForMayor #MicroHousing
August 14, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Maginnis’s vision: 3,300 micro-units by 2035! Starting with a 250-unit pilot near Scaleybark in 2026. Affordable, compact homes for Charlotte’s future. Check out our Substack:
open.substack.com/pub/maginnis....
Tell us your housing needs at www.maginnisformayor.org! #MaginnisForMayor #MicroHousing
open.substack.com/pub/maginnis....
Tell us your housing needs at www.maginnisformayor.org! #MaginnisForMayor #MicroHousing