Mayor Murray: Hoping to be Dealt an Ace from a Deck of Jokers
I have for a long time been a critic of the hegemony of angry single-family neighbors over land use and housing policy in the city. In fact, I described single-family neighbors “as angry, entitled, immoral, classist and racist, as zoo animals and as bloodthirsty dinosaurs.” I was also a neighborhood activist and planner myself in […]
Mark Huber: “Building the relationships is just as important as building the homes”
Local builder Mark Huber has been featured in a blog post at the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) that highlights his work with communities here and internationally building housing. We’ve featured Huber before in our City Builder series that featured stories about the actual humans that build housing for other humans in Seattle. I […]
Freedom and The Knowledge of People “On the Spot.”
This weekend, the Fourth of July, we celebrate the promulgation of a document in 1776, the Declaration of Indipendence, that seemed to explain not just the grievances of some angry farmers clinging to the eastern edge of an unexplored but already inhabited continent, but a clarion statement of human freedom. But a far more useful […]
