Summer Reruns: How Does Seattle’s Bad Housing Policy Hurt Rural Immigrants?
It is summer time and that means vacations and trips and all that. I’ll be posting some older posts while I take some time off. This week, I am featuring posts with a theme of immigration. I’m not going to wade into the current discussion. These posts will speak for themselves. This one posted in […]
Summer Reruns: An Immigrant’s Values and the American Dream
It is summer time and that means vacations and trips and all that. I’ll be posting some older posts while I take some time off. This week, I am featuring posts with a theme of immigration. I’m not going to wade into the current discussion. These posts will speak for themselves. This one was originally […]
MFTE Reauthorization Process is Looking a Lot Like the “Grand Bargain”
Last year, Seattle’s Office of Housing decided to break protocol — and the law — by not following the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) income standard for calculation of rents in units in the Multifamily Housing Tax Exemption (MFTE) program. Why? Because incomes went up in 2017 and therefore so did the calculation […]
