Rent Hyperbole Reaches Portland; Will They Make Seattle’s Mistakes?
Good news and bad news out of Portland; the bad news is that media hype around skyrocketing rents is moving right along just like it is in Seattle. The good news is that Portland is putting its attention on an incentive based, tax exemption program, borrowed by Seattle, to create more affordable units. Here’s the […]
Dupre + Scott: Why Rent Increases Feel Like a Ride on a Skyrocket
I can’t resist another post based on the latest Apartment Advisor Newsletter from Dupre + Scott. One of the great services Dupre + Scott has done over the last few years of the housing discussion in Seattle is to temper the heated rhetoric about “skyrocketing” rents by trying to inject some data and facts into the discussion. In […]
We’re #32!: Seattle Data Doesn’t Warrant Rent Panic
I pointed out yesterday in my post about the Seattle Way that here in Seattle we haven’t been very smart about housing policy. That’s mostly because we rely on data that has no relationship to the housing market place or the way people actually build, finance, and buy housing products. If we look at data […]
