The Dori Monson Show Highlights Non-Proift Housing Industrial Complex

Once again Dori Monson gets it and then says something about it. And, as I wrote last week here and at Forbes, Governor Jay Inslee simply doesn’t get how housing works; or he does and he doesn’t want anyone to know about it. Every time I point out and criticize spendy subsidized projects, I get […]

Happy 4th of July: Taxes, Revolution, and Housing

I always try to write something for the July 4th holiday, whether it is on Facebook or here or somewhere else. The holiday for me has always aroused mixed feelings. There’s the crowds and the heat, but also the food and, sometimes, connecting with people in backyards or some public place or somewhere with an […]

The Mayor and City: Bad Policy Backed by Bad Data.

There is a pretty damning report by Daniel Person at the Seattle Weekly that found the City, and in particular the Mayor, cooked the books on the impacts of the $15 minimum wage To review, the timeline seems to have gone like this: The UW shares with City Hall an early draft of its study […]