Low-Rise Legislation: Still Taking Away Supply, Choice, and Opportunity
This afternoon the Planning Land Use and Sustainability (PLUS) Committee of the Seattle City Council will consider legislation to make changes to Seattle’s low-rise zones. This is legislation that we have been fighting against for well over a year with some benefit. The legislation that is being proposed is nowhere near as bad as what […]
City Builder: What Good Journalism Sounds Like
I’ve been critical of local reporting of growth, especially the Seattle Times which has shown a tendency to take the easy way out when writing about new development. The Times in particular has a bad habit of reporting economic news about housing in a matter of fact way on the business pages, but when their reporters […]
Seattle City Council Starts Slow Slide Toward Rent Control
Yesterday the Planning Land Use and Sustainability (PLUS) Committee discussed renter protection legislation that was offered to try and stop supposed abuses of the City’s Tenant Relocation Assistance Ordinance (TRAO) requirements. The claim, only anecdotal, is that land lords are trying to get rid of tenants by boosting their rents dramatically — it’s called economic eviction. But […]
