After years of heated arguments, Seattle just passed a law allowing up to four houses per residential lot -- and six, in some cases.  

The hope is that building a lot more homes will keep prices from becoming dramatically more expensive than they are now. But there’s a tradeoff. To gain more housing, we’re going to lose something else people care a lot about: trees.

On the latest episode of Booming, could there be a way to have both? 

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