Hold the Date: How to Build Support for More Housing in Seattle
“How to Build Support for More Housing in Seattle: Advocacy and Grassroots Organizing” McCormick & Schmick’s Harborside Restaurant 1200 Westlake Ave N, Seattle, WA 98109 Thursday, April 28, 2016 | 6:00 – 8:30 PM Join Roger Valdez, Director of Smart Growth Seattle, and Sonja Trauss, principal at the San Francisco Bay Area Renters’ Federation (SF […]
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Meeting With Some Seattle Neighbors
If you’ve been paying attention, even a little bit of attention, you’ll know I don’t have much patience for most arguments made by neighbors about growth and new housing. In fact, I usually consider their arguments red herrings, mostly bluff and bluster about whatever they can come up with to create doubt, throw up process barriers and […]
Thursday: Pacific Legal Foundation to Talk Grand Bargain and Takings
Ethan Blevins of the Pacific Legal Foundation (the Foundation) will join us this Thursday at the regular breakfast meeting of the Seattle Builders Council (7:30AM at the Blue Star Cafe in Wallingford). Blevins will talk about the Foundation’s work in land use and housing and talk about his thoughts on legal issues related to the […]
