OK, Housing is a Right; Don’t we Still Need More?
So if housing is a right, not a commodity to be bought and sold the question still remains: don’t we need more. I’m not being snide here at all. What I am asking is, if we have 1000 people who need homes and 100 homes then whether housing is a commodity or a right, don’t […]
Krugman on Housing and Regulation
I’m pointing to the New York Times again today. Paul Krugman, who is generally seen to be the leading economist of the left, wrote a column making a not so liberal point — or at least a point that I make all the time over and against the dominant lefty paradigm in Seattle — overregulation […]
Dude, Where’s My Journalism
Locally based writer for the New York Times Tom Egan trotted out a bunch hackneyed terms and phrases about growth in an article titled “Dude, Where’s My City?” It left me asking Egan, “Dude, where’s your editor?” Here’s a paragraph that was among the worst: Rising rents threaten to push out the quirky and creative types […]
