Michael Andersen
Sightline Institute
Portland, OR, United States
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Past articles by Michael:
The Price of Old Homes Depends on the Cost of Building New Homes
An explanation, via hamburgers. → Read More
End Parking Mandates, Get a Free Bus Pass
Great programs like this one in Minnesota don’t happen when big parking lots are mandatory. → Read More
We Ran the Rent Numbers on Portland’s 7 Newly Legal Home Options
Today’s milestone comes with an implicit question. All these options may now be legal on paper. But will any of them actually be built? → Read More
Permanent Child Payments Would Deal a Historic Blow to Poverty
The American Rescue Plan signed last week opens the door to an alternative approach to future expansions of the US social safety net: giving people money and letting them decide how to use it, including a federal child payment to even the poorest families. → Read More
A Federal Child Credit: Like Automatic Renter Aid, But Better
A federal child credit would be an epochal victory in the fight for to house vulnerable Americans. Three Cascadian senators have key roles. → Read More
It Should Be Legal to Live in More of Oregon's 1.5 Million Empty Bedrooms
A proposed state law would strike down needless bans on sharing big houses. → Read More
Study: Yes, More Parking Does Put More Cars on the Road –
A new study finds something transportation reformers have long suspected, but never proven. → Read More
Verified: More Parking Puts More Cars on the Road
A new study finds something environmentalists have long suspected but never proven. → Read More
Suddenly, Zoning Reforms are Popping up Everywhere
Legalizing fourplexes citywide: a great idea that's spreading beyond the Pacific Northwest. → Read More
A Green Voter's Guide to Cascadia's 2020 Election Results
2020 election results related to sustainability that we're watching in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Alaska and elsewhere. → Read More
Census: Portland bike commuting laid low again in year before COVID
2019 was another year with little growth in bike commuting, in Portland or elsewhere in the U.S. → Read More
The Path to Good Local Zoning Reform is State and Federal Zoning Reform
State and federal zoning reform could force actively exclusionary cities to be less bad and slice through pro-housing advocate debates. → Read More
We Shouldn’t Need a Virus to Embrace Cash Benefits
Cash benefits give households the flexibility to respond to their unique needs and stability to open the possibility of long-term planning. → Read More
5 Reasons Portland's Fourplex Legalization Would Be a Big Deal
Portland's residential infill proposal could combine the best ideas of other cities and add its own. It's also the most significant zoning reform project... → Read More
2019: The Year Abundant Housing Turned the Corner
This year’s abundant housing successes bode well for long-term affordability progress in 2020 and in the years beyond that. → Read More
California Homeowners Have 20 Uninhabited Bedrooms for Every Homeless Person
The search for housing justice shouldn't ignore the empty luxury spaces we subsidize most. → Read More
In Mid-Density Zones, Portland Has a Choice: Garages or Low Prices?
The city's analysis shows that the need to build parking is catastrophic for housing affordability. → Read More
Did segregation cause your traffic jam?
Sprawl: Among other things, a deliberate attempt to enforce racial segregation with physical space. → Read More
Put a Friendly Face on Gentle Density
Use Sightline's open-source Flickr library to help familiarize, and normalize, "missing middle" homes through images, and share some of your own. → Read More
Oregon Just Voted to Legalize Duplexes on Almost Every City Lot
The bill, which would also legalize fourplexes and cottage clusters in larger cities, cleared both House and Senate with wide, bipartisan majorities. → Read More