The View From Up Here: State Ignores Big Questions About the Housing Trust Fund
The reason I posted the 5 part series on land use and housing week before last was because I felt like the conversation we’ve been having about housing has become needlessly confounded with a whole bunch of ideology and efforts to use people’s frustration about housing prices to gather political power and advantage. I also […]
Realizing Reform: Free Markets, Better Government, and the Common Good
This is the final post in a series on density first posted in 2012 at Seattle’s Land Use Code. Living in densely populated cities is better for the environment but it can also be good for the economy, for government, and the development of people’s potential to be moral and compassionate. Advocates for density and urbanists […]
Where Would Jesus Live: The Moral Dimension of Cities.
This is the third post in a series on density first posted in 2012 at Seattle’s Land Use Code. Tomorrow’s post is the closing post, Realizing Reform: Free Markets, Better Government, and the Common Good Jean-Paul Sartre’s play, Huis Clos, is probably best remembered for the phrase, “l’enfer c’est les autres,” often translated as, “hell is other people.” In the play […]
