Watch the Rent Control Debate
There was a good deal of coverage of last night’s debate. It took awhile, but embedded above is the whole debate. I had a lot of fun engaging with Councilmembers Sawant and Licata and the audience. For some of us, what looks like a tense and stressful argument is really an exciting battle of ideas […]
A Letter from Stockholm on Rent Control
(The following was written by a resident of Stockholm as a letter from Stockholm to Seattle. You can watch last week’s rent control debate in it’s entirety here) Dear Seattle, I am writing to you because I heard that you are looking at rent control. Seattle, you need to ask your citizens this: How would […]
Linkage Fee Dead: NIMBYs Can’t Hide Behind Social Justice Anymore
As I pointed out yesterday there are some truly bold and forward thinking ideas in the report of the Mayor’s Housing Affordability and Livability Agenda (HALA) Committee report. This is especially true when it comes to addressing Seattle’s longstanding view that single-family zones were off the table for more density. The HALA Report pushes that […]
