Why Vote “No” on the Housing Levy?
If you’re reading this, there is a pretty good chance you have read the voter’s guide and asked yourself, “Who would oppose the housing levy?” It has taken a long chain of abuses and misgovernment for me to turn against Seattle’s housing levy, a measure I supported the last time it was on the ballot […]
Of Cottages and Individualism
This was written as a Facebook note in September of 2009. I’m reposting it because it is worth noting that I have always been deeply opposed to the sentimentality of the single-family neighborhood. This is why, as I’ve posted elsewhere, I find it discouraging to see the critique of single-family highjacked by the social justice […]
Where Did All The Money Go?
Dear Governor Inslee, We sent the attached letter to you back in December of last year asking you and the legislature to use financial institutions to rapidly issue rent relief, a system like the successful Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). This kind of program would have paid rent first and then documentation. Your Commerce Department rejected this idea […]
