It Might Be Time for Guaranteed Income for Seattle’s Poorest
Imagine if poor people living in Seattle were guaranteed a minimum level of income for housing costs. I don’t like the standard typically used to establish the normative standard for housing costs—30 percent of gross monthly income discounted by some percentage of Area Median Income—but let’s start with that. In my thought experiment everyone earning 30 percent […]
Housing Data: We Can Solve Problems AND Feel Better Too
Think about any problem you might have in your own household or at work. Usually that problem comes with two kinds of measures, quantitative and qualitative. For example, if you’re running low on milk you know what “low” means when you pick up the carton and if feels lighter than usual. That’s a qualitative measure. […]
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 […]
