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Why Small Developers Are Getting Squeezed Out of The Housing Market

A repost with a few more pictures and a bit more text

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Coby Lefkowitz
Mar 06, 2024
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Fir Street Flats, a fourplex with 3 apartments in Bothell, Washington, designed and developed by Cary Westerbeck of Westerbeck Architecture. Privately financed. Completed 2019. (Westerbeck Architecture)

Last week, I wrote a piece for my friend

Noah Smith
that I’m republishing here with a few more pictures and a bit more text. I’m also republishing it as I managed to…

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