Durkan-Sawant Jobs Tax: What Does 750 Units of Housing Look Like?
The City’s version of Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning (MIZ) called Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA) gives small increases in square footage for new development in exchange for very large fees, more risk, and extra construction costs. In many if not almost all cases there is no value exchange with the City’s program; the fees and risk will […]
Housing Trust Fund: Rural Washington Has Older Housing Units
I’ve been looking at years of Housing Trust Fund (HTF) allocation data and have already pointed out that King County gobbles up a big share of the pie for very expensive construction projects even though rural Washington is relatively poorer and less well off, and has lower vacancy rates for rental housing. Now, after looking at […]
Rise Seattle Podcast: Talking Seattle Housing, Culture, and Change
I had the opportunity to have a great conversation with Tyler Davis Jones and Phil Greely who turn conversations like ours into a podcast called Rise Seattle. Davis Jones is a Seattle based Real Estate Broker at Windermere Real Estate and originally from Nashville and moved to Seattle in 2012. Greely is a Seattle native with more than eight years experince […]
