I’m not sure what will wake up Seattle’s sleeping business and real estate community. Maybe the slumbering giant isn’t asleep; maybe it’s dead. But perhaps the move by the Seattle City Council to ban evictions 5 months out of the year could raise the dead. To the general public, this idea of not “kicking people out” during winter might make sense and seem compassionate; it isn’t. I explain why on one of 4 television interviews I did a week ago.

It’s time to fight back. The number of people evicted is small and certainly manageable if the City Council is truly motivated by compassion. There may be a dozen or so people a month evicted that face homelessness. We know their names, addresses, and phone numbers. We know the status of their eviction. All of these things are part of the records of the proceeding in eviction court.

Of course, we know that isn’t what the City Council is trying to do. The rudderless body is blown about by whatever mob Councilmember Sawant can conjure; it’s as if the Seattle City Council lives in a little snow globe filled with socialists. Former City Attorney used to call Seattle 85 square miles surrounded by reality. Today, it’s more like one city block surrounded by reality.

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