Happy 4th of July: Taxes, Revolution, and Housing
I always try to write something for the July 4th holiday, whether it is on Facebook or here or somewhere else. The holiday for me has always aroused mixed feelings. There’s the crowds and the heat, but also the food and, sometimes, connecting with people in backyards or some public place or somewhere with an […]
Governor Inslee Fails Simple Test and Vetos a Study on Housing Costs
Over the last year two years, non-profit housing agencies, the Capitol Hill Housing Improvement Program (CHIP) and El Centro De La Raza (El Centro), each completed a housing projects, CHIP on Capitol Hill in 2015 and El Centro on Beacon Hill last year, in 2016. The CHIP project has 88 units of housing and the […]
The Mayor and City: Bad Policy Backed by Bad Data.
There is a pretty damning report by Daniel Person at the Seattle Weekly that found the City, and in particular the Mayor, cooked the books on the impacts of the $15 minimum wage To review, the timeline seems to have gone like this: The UW shares with City Hall an early draft of its study […]
