The Seattle City Council is holding a hearing on the controversial issue of micro-housing (also known as aPodments), in which small units share a common kitchen. It's a brown-bag lunch hearing—I brought peanut M&Ms—but I should have brought a bento box.

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In brief: These units provide affordable housing without any subsidies. However, neighborhood groups around the city are complaining about them as "changing the neighborhood character" with "sketchy people" and "transients." They also don't like that there's no public input in the permitting process. So Council Member Tom Rasmussen has hijacked his own transportation committee meeting—which normally would have nothing to do with housing regulations—to advance new restrictions and possibly a moratorium on aPodments.