On the Radio: More Discussion on New Effort at Rent Control
I was on local National Public Radio station KUOW last week pointing out the flaws of the latest efforts to control rent by the City. We put out a statement to the media last week with the Rental Housing Association of Washington explaining why Councilmember Savant’s proposed legislation to limit rent increases sounds like a […]
Correction: We Need More Housing, Not More Zoning
That headline is pretty loaded. What does it mean? Don’t we want more zoning capacity in order to build more housing? Over the last week or so in conversations with different people about housing and zoning and mandates being pushed by the Mayor, I realized that there has been confusion created among people in the housing and […]
A Real Grand Bargain: Leave Single-Family Alone!
Let’s face it, zoning is obsolete; it’s a 20th century solution to a 19th century problem, the encroachment of intense and messy uses of land next to less intense uses of land. In the last century, almost a 100 years ago, toxic industrial uses and people shared the same block. Zoning was initially a kind […]
