The Best of Seattle For Growth: The Inconvenient Truth About Workforce Housing
It was 2014, when microhousing and small-lot housing still existed. There was no Mandatory Housing Affordability. Low-rise zones were thriving with more apartments than townhomes. I was in the last week of my old job as a housing director at a non-profit. My last day was February 14th, Valentine’s day. I had left that full […]
Seattle Channel: Do We Need More Rules or More Housing?
The Seattle Channel remains the last bit of ground in the city where debate takes the old fashioned form: each side of an issue argues for itself with some kind of moderation. Most of the usual media features Mad Libs about press releases (for example, Crosscut regurgitating various “reports“) and others like The Stranger have […]
It’s Time to Defend Yourself. Will you?
Two things amaze me about the Seattle City Council’s proposed ban on evictions; first, that it is happening at all, and second, the slack response from the real estate community. Now, for sure, I’ve had a spike in interest in what we can do to stop this. Can we fight it in court? How can […]
