Something New: Everything Urban
How about a podcast? Well, Tim Dubois has invited me to collaborate on his efforts to get the conversation going on alternative views about housing, land use, and urban planning. This isn’t the usual YIMBY stuff. We’re hoping to mix banter on economics and public policy with some ideas about how cities can make way […]
Mark Sidran on Compassion Seattle: It Makes Things Worse
Lately, I have done most of my blog post writing at Forbes. Along with my series about the future of rental housing in the United States, I wrote about something called Compassion Seattle, a campaign to amend the charter of the City of Seattle, called Charter Amendment 29 (CA 29). Many of you will be […]
Dazed and Confused: Tenant Landlord Regulation Isn’t Housing Policy
State Representative Nicole Macri and State Senator Patty Kuderer are either profoundly confused or misled. They seem to think that toying with landlord tenant law — really contract law — is housing policy. It isn’t. It’s contract law. However, whenever they get drawn into the swamp of minutiae of how rental contracts are regulated, they […]
