Baseball and Housing: Hitting, Pitching, and Supply Have a Simple Fix
I’ve long compared the hunger to regulate the housing market down to the color of doorknobs on the bathroom doors of new apartments with people’s view of something seemingly completely unrelated: baseball. As is often the case, my intuition — and just ambient awareness — is right. People like to see the outcomes they want […]
In San Francisco: A Brief History of Seattle’s Slide Away From Supply Side Solutions
I wrote at Forbes about my first take at a 5 to 7 minute presentation at a housing conference in San Francisco. I’ve been traveling and on the move, so I didn’t have an opportunity to post this yesterday, but this is more or less what I said at the conference. The organizers wanted me […]
Where Is Seattle’s Housing Future? Maybe In the Past.
I was writing up some broader thoughts about housing and as part of that spent some time going through things on this website. I had mixed feelings when I clicked on the menu item called “Seattle’s Housing Future.” My feelings were mixed because I realized how I still completely agree with everything on this list […]
