Vox Populis: A Recap of the Public Hearing on Rent Control
Later today we’ll find out whether proposed rent control legislation will live or die. In this guest post by Spencer R. Clark, Vice President of Investments at Marcus & Millichap runs down what happened early this week in the Senate committee that considered the repeal of the preemption of rent control. If the legislation does […]
Forget Amazon: Local Housing Builders May Have to Leave Seattle Too
Editors note: This post was originally an email responding to a fundraising request. Smart Growth Seattle is funded largely by small and medium sized, family owned business like the one Gary Cobb operates. While the Seattle Chamber of Commerce is just waking up to the deliberate efforts to slow and stop new housing development, builders […]
Dwell Development Introduces New High Performance Home
The following is a guest post from Dwell Development. Dwell has been a leader in creating great housing all over the city and especially in the Rainier Valley and Columbia City. We featured their work previously in a post about their passive house project. Dwell Development, Seattle’s award-winning leader in sustainable home building, is excited to […]