Durkan-Sawant Jobs Tax: Why Doesn’t Left Support Cash Payments for Rent?
I love math; I can watch people doing it for hours. I’m not particularly all that smart but I do have access to a calculator and a spreadsheet and the internet. So here’s one dumb guy’s, philosopher math on the Sawant-Durkan tax on jobs that will likely pass in the weeks ahead. According to the […]
Rise Seattle Podcast: Talking Seattle Housing, Culture, and Change
I had the opportunity to have a great conversation with Tyler Davis Jones and Phil Greely who turn conversations like ours into a podcast called Rise Seattle. Davis Jones is a Seattle based Real Estate Broker at Windermere Real Estate and originally from Nashville and moved to Seattle in 2012. Greely is a Seattle native with more than eight years experince […]
Crosscut Festival Panel: Amazon Didn’t Raise Your Rent, the City Council Did
Two weeks ago I was honored to be a on a panel at the first Crosscut Festival, a wide ranging two day event with panels covering an array of national, regional, and local issues. My panel was called, Growth and Gentrification in a Tech Boomtown. I’m not sure exactly what the term “gentrification” means qualitatively […]
