Analogy Department: Just Bake More Bread!
If you been following my presentations in public and my writing on the topic of housing, you’ll know that I often deploy the “Bake More Bread” analogy. Arches Magazine, the regular publication of my alma matter the University of Puget Sound features me in their fall edition and I’m quoted putting it this way: If you […]
Tale of Two Maps: Seattle Mayor and Council Draw New Redline
National Geographic has a very interesting post called, “Newly Released Maps Show How Housing Discrimination Happened.” The post highlights a project called Mapping Inequality led by Nathan Connolly, an urban historian at Johns Hopkins University and others at the National Archives that digitized maps made by the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation known as HOLC. The HOLC was […]
Jonathan Swift Offers A Modest Proposal for Seattle’s Homeless Encampments
I really appreciate the steady and balanced coverage of Seattle’s ongoing discussion and debate over homeless encampments by Erica Barnett of C is for Crank (see her latest post, “Council Skeptical of Plan That Could Require Moving the Homeless Out of Town“), Josh Feit of Publicola, and Heidi Groover of The Stranger. This is a […]
