Showbox: A Case Study in Confusion and Misdirection on Growth
A recent story about Seattle’s latest incoherent response to growth and housing policy starts out, “Emotions have been running high in Seattle over the Showbox..” True. Emotions and not much else. The story in Curbed reports on the failure in court by the City of Seattle to defend it’s efforts to zone the location of […]
The Center for Housing Economics: Can We Build an Intellectual Case for Housing Supply?
We’re making it happen! Go to The Center for Housing Economics website. I have been getting the sense that if I wandered into the woods, cut off from all communication, spending my days just surviving for five or even ten years, I’d return to find the housing conversation stuck in the same place it is […]
EK On the Go: The Architecture of Discomfort
I’ve know Edward Krigsman as an innovator in the real estate world for more than a decade. When I left the public health world back in 2007, Krigsman was one of the first people I talked to about transitioning into a role that would give me an opportunity to be an advocate for more housing […]
