Why Stop at Rent Control? Herbold Wants Neighborhood Control
If you thought the drubbing the City Council took over the head tax taught them to avoid bad ideas, think again. Councilmember Herbold is willing to try anything to “solve” housing prices except allowing more housing, including mandating who gets to live in what neighborhood. This is from an email she sent this week: Community […]
Digging Deeper Into Non-Profit Housing Costs: Plymouth’s 501 Rainier
Seattle For Growth is the only voice in the whole housing conversation bringing attention to the costs of non-profit housing production. Why should you care? No matter what your opinions about housing the fact is that non-profits have the most political power in the way housing policy is made; they are the reasons why local […]
Where Are Rents Rising Fast? Not Seattle.
I’m not going to write much, just link to a recent study of rents nationwide by Apartment List, a paragraph and two images. Here’s the paragraph: City rankings change substantially from year to year. From 2017 to 2018, Seattle experienced the largest drop in the rankings, after experiencing rent growth above 5 percent for each year […]
