The Best of Seattle For Growth:Eppur si muove! Housing prices do go down!
Last week we did a rerun of Ol’ Dan Bertolet’s post on workforce housing. Today, a year and a week later, here’s a rerun of my best Galileo post. I remember when I wrote this on a cold, dark morning. At that point we had maybe a dozen posts up. I had watched a documentary […]
Seattle Channel: Do We Need More Rules or More Housing?
The Seattle Channel remains the last bit of ground in the city where debate takes the old fashioned form: each side of an issue argues for itself with some kind of moderation. Most of the usual media features Mad Libs about press releases (for example, Crosscut regurgitating various “reports“) and others like The Stranger have […]
It’s Time to Defend Yourself. Will you?
Two things amaze me about the Seattle City Council’s proposed ban on evictions; first, that it is happening at all, and second, the slack response from the real estate community. Now, for sure, I’ve had a spike in interest in what we can do to stop this. Can we fight it in court? How can […]
