Survey Says:Builders Oppose MIZ/MHA, Support Legal Challenge
The sample size is small, just 41 people. After doing many surveys over the years I’ve found that it is very difficult to get people to respond. It’s irritating. Until I consider that when I get surveys it often takes me a week to 10 days to respond and because I’ve fielded surveys I am […]
Just One More Thing: Even if Jobs Tax Did What it is Supposed to do, it Wouldn’t Solve Housing Problem
I hate to be such a bother, but there’s a few things about this proposed jobs tax that bother me. Maybe you can help answer these questions. So here’s the City of Seattle’s logic on why they need to tax jobs in Seattle. Their proposed tax would charge businesses $75,000,000 million dollars a year based […]
MIZ/MHA Won’t Work, but Is there a Compromise?
I was on a panel last week talking about housing and affordability for the University of Washington’s continuing education program for real estate professionals. I was pretty aggressive making my typical points about Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning (MIZ) and the City’s version of it, Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA). I made the usual points, that MIZ will […]
