Commercial Linkage Hearing: Lots of Love for Fees, Little Support for Upzones
Last night I attended the public hearing for the so called Affordable Housing Impact Mitigation Fee or Commercial Linkage fee associated with the Mayor’s Housing Affordability and Livability Agenda (HALA) Committee recommendations. The commercial linkage tax was agreed to by commercial developers because it has made financial sense for those developers to pay a fee […]
Economics 101: The Importance of Productivity
If you can find 30 minutes of free time I recommend you watch the video featured above, a tutorial on basic economics. If you have any stake in the housing discussion going on in this city, it’s worth getting a grounding in simple economics. The thing I like most about this video is that the creator, […]
Dupree + Scott: Rent Increases Down, Operating Costs Go Up
Both Mike Scott, one of the region’s best experts on rental housing prices, and I often share a frustration about how rent increases and decreases get reported. Usually, when rents go up over a short period of time, the headlines blare about “skyrocketing” rents on the front page. When they go down, or flatten, that […]
