Surprise! People Get Housing Supply and Demand at City Hall
There are times in meetings when someone says something that makes your jaw drop open. This week that happened to me. While in a meeting about a complex issue about how Seattle City Light gets service to properties that are being divided up into more than one parcel. It’s a complicated issue involving the City’s […]
‘Equity’ is a Cover for Redistributing Wealth to Single-Family Home Owners
The housing discussion in Seattle is so rife with jingoism and rhetorical sawdust that trying to figure out what the housing problem ( if there is a problem at all) might be and how best to solve it is exceedingly difficult. Phrases like “social justice” and “equity” are frequently thrown about and it is impossible to tell […]
Seattle Times Right and Wrong on Grand Bargain
The Seattle Times weighed in yesterday on the passage earlier in the week of key legislation that starts the City down the road of mandatory inclusionary zoning through the much hyped Grand Bargain. We’ve pointed out that, so far, the math isn’t working: the mandatory upzones proposed for neighborhood builders will cost more than the rent revenue […]
