A Voice in the Wilderness: Another Letter to the Mayor and Council on MHA
I thought the Seattle City Council needed at least one more record of dissent about the imposition of their Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA) scheme on the whole city. I sent this letter after my editorial appeared in the Seattle Times. It is the season of Advent, an observance of waiting and reflection before Christmas that […]
More Density in Single-Family? We Tried That Once
Sometimes even I forget that I started my work on Seattle For Growth in an effort to expand supply of single-family housing. Yes, that’s right, my first assignment as it were was to support a solution to the “small-lot problem.” Back in 2012 and 2013 developers had found a way to subdivide single-family lots and build […]
Neighborhood MHA Appeal Squashed: What Happened, Why, and What’s Next?
Last week the City’s Hearing Examiner removed the last barrier for citywide implementation of the City’s Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA) scheme by finding against neighborhood groups that had appealed implementation of MHA. Neighborhood groups argued that the City failed to properly review and consider the impacts of MHA. They failed to persuade, so now the […]
