100,000 Units: Will We Learn From San Francisco
While putting together links for my last post I stumbled on this video clip. There’s nothing special about the image of a wordy Power Point presentation. But it’s worth listening to what the City of San Francisco’s Chief Economist Ted Egan says about housing supply and demand in the city. His analysis is what was […]
NIMBYs (and a Legislator) are killing the economy
Matthew Yglesias at Vox has written an important response to an article in the New York Times about how housing is holding back economy. The author of that article spends lots of time on people being hesitant to buy houses, but Yglesias points out that in cities like Seattle housing isn’t being built fast enough […]
Growth in Seattle: An Introduction
Last Saturday Smart Growth Seattle was fortunate to have the board of the Osprey Foundation visit for a tour and introduction to growth issues in Seattle. We didn’t have a lot of time, but we covered some good ground. This is the introduction to the tour and the stops we made. The tour, as it […]
