Will Proposed New Developer Rule Create More Family-Sized Apartments or Kill Cheap Housing?

Less than 20 percent of new Seattle apartments are more than two bedrooms.by Heidi GrooverLooking to rent an apartment with more than one bedroom? Good luck. Scott Olson/Getty
The splashiest news from Seattle's newly announced upzone plans is who will and won't see the growth. (TL;DR: Single family homeowners are almost completely off the hook.) But another, smaller piece of the announcement could be good news for affordable housing—if it works.
Along with rezoning in urban villages to all