Upzoning Seattle’s Comfort Zone
I have a guest editorial at Publicola that builds on some of my other commentary on how zoning in Seattle tends to reinforce segregation of people and family by race and class. I think the post is a bit challenging because it keeps pushing the wedge between the crowd in Seattle that tends to be […]
Still Making it Worse?: A Year Later
About a year ago we put together a video to call out the City Council’s woeful record on housing policy. The point of the video was to draw attention to the need for a plan. Well, now we have one. The Mayor’s Housing Affordability and Livability Agenda (HALA) Committee has produced what we asked for, […]
MIZU: The Same Effect as Rent Control?
One wonders what government would do without acronyms. Perhaps government programs would end up with catchy brand names like pharmaceuticals or cars. The Multifamily Tax Exemption (MFTE) Program might be called simply Multaxa or Exemptor. The Mayor’s Housing Affordability and Livability Agenda (HALA) Committee has a whole glossary of acronyms at the end of it’s […]
