YIMBY News for 3/1

[Eric Budd]

Seattle’s No-Cost Climate Pollution Cut

The Urbanist

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The climate benefits of urban neighborhoods, all for the low price of letting people live where they want. Through the first decades of this century, the greater Seattle area had a secret weapon for fighting climate change: it let people choose to live closer to each other. Using a study of neighborhood-level carbon emissions, Sightline estimates that new residents to the Seattle area produced about 5% less greenhouse gases from 2000 to 2020. That’s simply thanks to their metro area being better than any other in the United States at adding homes to existing neighborhoods. The region eliminate

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