The Center for Housing Economics: Can We Build an Intellectual Case for Housing Supply?
We’re making it happen! Go to The Center for Housing Economics website. I have been getting the sense that if I wandered into the woods, cut off from all communication, spending my days just surviving for five or even ten years, I’d return to find the housing conversation stuck in the same place it is […]
Power of Narrative: Things That Make You Go, “WTF?”
I’ve been writing a lot lately at Forbes about the power of narrative, the way stories and perceptions can take hold and be incredibly hard to overcome. The most obvious one lately is the notion that eviction is a “crisis” or an “epidemic;” it’s neither, but all it takes is a slapped together “report” and […]
Are You Worried About Increases In the Real Estate Excise Tax (REET)?
Well, you should be. But were you concerned two and a half years ago when I wrote this? This Week in Olympia: Another Cash Grab by Non-Profit Housers Maybe not. Mostly, back then, I got shrugs and “whattyagonnados” from just about everyone I complained to about it. I expressed my concerns and doubts about messing […]
