Krugman:Deregulate to Create Equity
Typically the housing narrative from the political left goes something like this: rich people are crowding into cities demanding luxury housing and that’s why everyone else is being priced out. According to this story, housing is expensive because it’s really the bricks and mortor equivalent of a new Maseratti. And what’s the best way to […]
Cats and NIMBYs Together at Last
We all know that posts about cats fuel the internet, and posts by, from, and about NIMBYs end up dominating internet comment threads about growth and development. Imagine putting these two things together. Well, someone finally did it in a post making the rounds on Facebook now called 9 Things People Always Say at Zoning […]
Grand Bargain: This Isn’t Going to be Easy
I was on the Seattle Channel last week with Councilmember Mike O’Brien, Eastlake resident and micrhousing opponent Linda Alexander, and affordable housing developer and Grand Bargain signer Bill Rumpf. If you watch this whole show you’ll notice that the Grand Bargain is a lot more complicated than the group Seattle For Everyone (a group organized […]
