One More Time: Even if Housing Was Free, We’d Still Need More
Once again The Stranger’s Charles Mudede is spinning a jargon rich but still fantastical tale to get to his point: decommodify housing. Or, in other words, make housing an entitlement. Or in one word, make housing free! Mudede’s opinion matters because, even though I totally disagree with him, he is one of the few people […]
Seattle Mayor’s Race: Who’ll Say, “Me Too!” First
It’s been two weeks since the election in Seattle and now the that the dust has settled we know who the candidates for Mayor will be, former United States Attorney Jenny Durkan and urban planner and activist Cary Moon. In my view, builders, developers, and people who operate housing need to hold off on supporting […]
Frequent Transit Service: One Man, Two Words
The most well known quote by military theorist Carl von Clausewitz is that “war is the continuation of politics by other means.” But the inverse of Clausewitz’s formulation is no less true, that “politics is the continuation of war by other means.” There is little relationship between the tactics of winning political battles and making […]
