Limit Demand for Housing? “You Can’t Get There From Here!”
Miguel Keeler on the Facebook group City Builders asked this question and I answered. I lightly edited my response to include come comments in [brackets] about free movement. I’ve been thinking a lot about the demand for housing the area. You know what one radical solution just might help? Not allowing any more companies to move […]
Seattle is Not a “Welcoming City”
On Monday of this week Seattle declared itself a “Welcoming City” in the face of President Trump’s actions on immigration. I don’t exactly understand what this declaration means. And local politicians are almost dizzy with excitement as they run around from place to place making statements denouncing the President’s latest moves. It’s almost as if […]
Density’s Lament
For several years I was King County’s “Tobacco Tzar,” charged with creating, explaining, and enforcing rules and laws intended to limit the deadly effects of the leading preventable cause of death, cigarettes and tobacco. Even with all the controversy that swirled around the issue and me, we overcame opposition both within King County, public health, […]
