For Candidates: What’s Wrong With Seattle’s Mandatory Housing Affordability Program?
We’ve been working on a concise, one page description for candidates about why the City’s headlong rush into the disastrous policy of Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning (MIZ) is, well, disastrous. I still hear candidates calling the Grand Bargain, “HALA” and talking bout upzones associated with MIZ as “HALA” or “I support HALA,” or “I oppose HALA” […]
Lindsay and Nelson to Visit Seattle Builder Breakfast
It’s election season and there a lot of candidates running for office in Seattle. One key office, City Attorney, is up for election. This key office is often not talked about by people concerned with housing and development, but it matters. Incumbent Pete Holmes’ office argued somewhat famously now that, “laws can be bad, but […]
Renters Care About More Than Just How Much Rent They Pay
One of the frustrating aspects of talking about housing and trying to do something about it, is the lack of good self reported data about how renters feel about their life as renters. Too often the data pours out about how how much people who rent spend per month as a percentage of gross income. […]
