Sawant Leads, Burgess Follows
We’re still absorbing the irony over here in the real world: Supposed arch conservative Councilmember and Council President Tim Burgess, without warning, today offered and introduced a resolution committing the City to repeal the State preemption on rent control, a move championed by Socialist Councilmember Kshama Sawant. The vote? 8 to 1, with the lone […]
Thanks to MFTE and the Levy, Affordable Housing is All Over Seattle
Joshua McNichols at KUOW has done us all a great favor, creating a high quality interactive map of subsidized affordable housing in Seattle. Two things matter here. First, you can see that the housing units are all over the city. As I pointed out before, this flies in the face of the argument that somehow […]
Housing Debate: We Lack an Intellectual Foundation
The housing discussion in Seattle lacks a solid intellectual footing in economic principles. When people debate housing here, there is rarely a clear starting point when people take positions or make “bargains.” I would suggest that those who build housing need a set of simple, clear principles to judge whether something is a bargain or […]
