The article used data from a DPD housing report that captured production through May of 2015. I took that report and updated it to the current day, filling in some missing projects and adding in all of the 2015 pipeline. Here's what I found:
Annual Totals
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Congregate
Units
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SEDUs
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2010
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79
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0
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2011
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168
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0
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2012
|
755
|
32
|
2013
|
1804
|
82
|
2014
|
1203
|
251
|
2015
|
124
|
902
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One surprise: Virtually all of the new congregate housing projects are coming out of our office. This has nothing to do with us capturing market share; our workflow on congregate housing projects has been fairly stable. Rather, it is a reflection of the rest of the market being driven away from congregate micro-housing and shifting their efforts over to SEDU production.
Wow that is really sad. I remember when this started happening people in Olympia and other cities got so excited thinking what a great solution for housing, affordability, urban density, etc. Now the city that pioneered a-podments and microhousing is rejecting it? I'm looking forward to posting Yobi in the Code Innovations Database, perhaps stirring the pot a bit to see if this trend can be reversed. By the way, what is an SEDU?
ReplyDeleteWow that is really sad. I remember when this started happening people in Olympia and other cities got so excited thinking what a great solution for housing, affordability, urban density, etc. Now the city that pioneered a-podments and microhousing is rejecting it? I'm looking forward to posting Yobi in the Code Innovations Database, perhaps stirring the pot a bit to see if this trend can be reversed. By the way, what is an SEDU?
ReplyDeleteA SEDU is a Small Efficiency Dwelling Unit. It is a small studio apartment. Seattle has created some rules that allow for studios that are a little smaller than what is otherwise allowed under the building code. SEDU's are also a strategy for building smaller, less expensive housing, but they are about 50% larger than congregate micro-housing units, so they rent for quite a bit more.
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