Still Making it Worse?: A Year Later
About a year ago we put together a video to call out the City Council’s woeful record on housing policy. The point of the video was to draw attention to the need for a plan. Well, now we have one. The Mayor’s Housing Affordability and Livability Agenda (HALA) Committee has produced what we asked for, […]
Seattle Times Story: “I Am Not a Lobbyist!”
A liberal arts education is a terrible things to waste, so I was happy with the title of a profile on my work for Smart Growth Seattle headlined, Sharp Tongued Philosopher a Provocateur for Urban Density. But if you read through the piece you’d come away either with the impression that I am a lobbyist […]
Primary Election 2015: Better Than Expected?
I’ll admit that I’ve been pretty cynical about this year’s election. I didn’t even vote for a candidate for City Council because they are all so bad on our issues. But candidates who ran on explicitly NIMBY and anti HALA (Housing Affordabily and Livabiliy Agenda) Committee platforms (Grant, Bradburd, and Provine) got a thumping. Their […]
