City Builder: The City Council’s Housing Policy is Like Eating Tide Pods
Over at Facebook’s City Builders page someone was not happy with my tone in the last post about Councilmember Sawant’s latest creation, a $150 million tax on jobs for housing. But Brandon Adams offered the following analogy with completely explains my tone: total frustration. I’ve made allusions to Cassandra and Laocoon (a liberal arts education is a […]
Seattle Times: “No Thanks” to Op Ed on Facts About Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning
One of my earliest memories of poetry and of libraries was finding a book of poetry by e.e. cummings called “No Thanks.” It was compelling for all the reasons cummings poetry is compelling; innovative, confusing, and full of flashes of insight. But it was also rejected by 14 publishers before cummings just published it himself calling […]
Housing Trust Fund: Vacancy Rates Down in Many Rural Areas
We’ve looked at where Housing Trust Fund resources have gone between 2008 and 2016 by population, wages, and poverty. If need for housing subsidies is defined by income and poverty levels, clearly there’s a lot of need outside Seattle and King County, maybe more need. So what about vacancy rates in rural Washington. Vacancy rates […]
