Bellevue Should Keep Its Housing and Transit Friendly Parking Exemption
Check out the letter we sent to the Bellevue City Council. At a meeting on October 26th, the City Council will consider ending their exemption on required parking for housing within a half mile of transit. We have urged them to keep the exemption. It helps keep housing prices down, supports people getting out and […]
Sawant Signs New Lease . . . In Your Head
There are lots of people around Seattle who love to hate Kshama Sawant. None of them will debate her in public as I have. And few of them have ever met or dealt with her or staff as I have. Most, if not all, don’t have a about Sawant’s magic mostly becuase the fact that […]
CDC Eviction Ban: Making Stuff Up
I have a new post at Forbes about the latest unhelpful intervention in housing by government, a ban on evictions being imposed by the Centers for Disease Control. It is wrong headed, probably vulnerable to legal challenge, and does nothing to help people struggling to pay rent during the Covid-19 economic downturn. From the post: […]
