NIMBYs (and a Legislator) are killing the economy
Matthew Yglesias at Vox has written an important response to an article in the New York Times about how housing is holding back economy. The author of that article spends lots of time on people being hesitant to buy houses, but Yglesias points out that in cities like Seattle housing isn’t being built fast enough […]
Growth in Seattle: An Introduction
Last Saturday Smart Growth Seattle was fortunate to have the board of the Osprey Foundation visit for a tour and introduction to growth issues in Seattle. We didn’t have a lot of time, but we covered some good ground. This is the introduction to the tour and the stops we made. The tour, as it […]
Labor Takes a Vacation
Street and alley vacations can be a fraught affair these days. A vacation is when a private developer purchases public right of way to build on, under, or over. A parking lot under an alley way, for example, is a subterranean vacation. But it’s not just a sale because there has to be “public benefit.” […]
