City Builder: Real People Making our City
I said earlier this year that 2015 will be the Year of the City Builder. With that intention, we will start a regular feature here on Smart Growth Seattle that will showcase the human beings that do the work of building our city. You’ll notice the image I chose. Whenever I am talking with people […]
HB 1084: Pollett Pushes Anti-Housing Legislation Again
Last year you may remember State Representative Gerry Pollett’s efforts to pass legislation that would have provoked more costly appeals of new housing in single-family zones. We posted about the legislation then and urged people to contact Representative Pollett to urge him to stop pushing the legislation. Fortunately, last year, that legislation failed. But Pollett is back with House […]
Myth Buster: Gentrification or Desegregation?
It has become something of an article of faith for the antigrowth crowd that one big reason that growth is bad is that it unleashes something they call “gentrification.” Now it’s next to impossible to find a quantitative definition of gentrification; it’s mostly a know-it-when-you-see-it phenomena. I’ve written about how, when pressed, the argument that […]
