PART 1. AFFORDABILITY, PRICE, AND MEASURING A “CRISIS”
I often find myself frustrated with just about everything and everyone in this town, including developers, builders, and housing providers. Four years ago I was feeling about the same way and I wrote this three part indictment of how screwed up Seattle’s discussion of housing was then. Sadly, things haven’t gotten any better. I’ll post […]
Dazed and Confused: Tenant Landlord Regulation Isn’t Housing Policy
State Representative Nicole Macri and State Senator Patty Kuderer are either profoundly confused or misled. They seem to think that toying with landlord tenant law — really contract law — is housing policy. It isn’t. It’s contract law. However, whenever they get drawn into the swamp of minutiae of how rental contracts are regulated, they […]
Oh Boy. Here We Go. Seattle Banning Credit Checks?
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: We are seeing the slow erosion of private rental property in Seattle and the United States. But the takeover of housing by government is speeding up. Last week the Seattle Renters’ Commission wrote a long letter to the Seattle City Council urging the end of credit […]
