What is Causing Seattle’s Slide Toward Being the Next San Francisco?
I’ve already written about the San Francisco Death Spiral: limit supply, prices go up, blame developers and landlords, impose supply killing regulation, watch prices go up, repeat. Well, we’re right at the top of the spiral and getting ready to take the plunge. Local wannabe elected officials don’t have the intellectual acuity to offer solutions […]
I Love Speculators! The Story of the Transatlantic Cable Guy
In case you missed it, there has been a lot of press lately about the notion that the reason that Seattle housing prices are so high is because, “speculators” are roaming around the city snapping up land, parking wads of capital everywhere and leaving all these homes empty. Once again Sightline is late to the […]
666: The Devil’s Post
Well, here we are. This is the 666th post on the Smart Growth Seattle website. Maybe this is the end. We’ll see what happens next. Over the course of the last four years we’ve been joined by a variety of contributors and covered a range of topics and issues. I wish I could look back […]
