Surprise! Build Less, Get Rich, Price Out the Poor
The Registry, a blog about the San Francisco real estate market, ran a great post on housing supply and demand, transportation, and wealth by John McNellis called Let them Commute. Along with the headline’s reference to Marie Antoinette’s famous and misunderstood quote “let them eat cake,” he also quotes F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby: the […]
Roosevelt Reservoir: Broad Consensus on City Owned Land for Housing.
The debate over how to address housing issues in Seattle is a contentious one, right? It’s even hard sometimes to agree on what the problem is and of course that means differences on what to do. But there doesn’t seem to be anyone, developers, non-profit affordable housing advocates, Councilmemeber Sawant, and neighborhoods who disagree about […]
Seattle Times: Helping the Discussion on Housing or Making it Worse?
Yesterday at noon the Seattle Times’ Sanjay Bhatt hosted an online forum on housing. I couldn’t participate but you can see the thread of comments and discussion by visiting the log of the chat at the Seattle Times website. The fact that the Times would host this kind of forum is great. The region’s largest […]
