Sightline Corroborates Our Points About Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning
I’ve been after the Sightline Institute for a long time now urging it to abandon it’s support for Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning (MIZ). Last year they hired one of the smartest guys in town, Dan Bertolet, who I had worked with before challenging the City’s housing need numbers. Since then I’ve been after Bertolet to finish his […]
Preservation Tax Exemption: An Efficient and Sensible Way to Preserve Older Housing
Yesterday, in Olympia, I gave some comments to the Senate Human Services, Mental Health & Housing about Senate Bill 5182. The proposal was offered in a previous legislative session but failed to pass. I think this proposal called the “Preservation Tax Exemption,” is a great idea if it’s done correctly. The idea is to expand the […]
A Letter from the Governor and Our Response
At last week’s meeting of the Affordable Housing Advisory Board (AHAB) a letter was presented to the group — AHAB “advises the Department of Commerce on housing and housing-related issues” — from Governor Jay Inslee. The letter was encouraging because it showed an apparent appreciation by the governor that costs from zoning and planning requirements […]
