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Seattle affordable-housing mandate after upzoning

The Seattle study evaluates a combined upzoning and affordability mandate and cautions that results depend on the value of added development capacity and the cost of the requirement.

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Krimmel and Wang, Upzoning With Strings Attached: Evidence From Seattle’s Affordable Housing Mandate, HUD Cityscape 25(2) (2023).

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The Seattle study evaluates a combined upzoning and affordability mandate and cautions that results depend on the value of added development capacity and the cost of the requirement.

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