Warning From Portland: Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning Brings Building to Halt
I’ve often said that I’ve never seen such intense and stubborn support for such a significant and sweeping imposition as I have for Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning (MIZ). There are two opponents in Seattle to the measure that the City calls Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA), Seattle For Growth and angry neighbors who have appealed the program […]
How Does Seattle’s Bad Housing Policy Hurt Rural Immigrants?
When people in the media talk about a housing “crisis” (I still haven’t seen a quantitative definition of what that means) the image conjured up is usually an urban one. Whether it is homelessness or high rents or the lack of so called “workforce housing,” the concentration of the energy on the issues is mostly […]
From a Builder: Forced Into a Corner
A few years ago I got a call (as I often do) from a housing builder who had some issues with his project. We talked through them then and he kept going. More than three years later he got in touch to let me know the project is done and leased up. But think about […]
