Facebook: Another Conversation About Markets and Housing
There two things that cause some of us no end of frustration: really smart people mischaracterizing the views of a market approach to addressing housing issues and an odd misunderstanding of what a market is and how it works. In the first case, nobody I know makes the argument that drastically deregulating the housing market will […]
Housing Economics: What Made Me an Un-Democrat
As I sat in my usual coffee shop Saturday I could help but feel a little left out. I kept hearing, “On my way to the caucus!” and “Yep, heading for the caucus!” Well, I wasn’t. And it wasn’t because I don’t care about presidential politics. Of course I’m interested. But for me to show […]
Reflections on Opening Day: Light Rail is People
In both transportation and land use it is easy to lose sight of one basic fact: what matters most it isn’t the bricks, the tracks, the design, the routes, the heights but people. At this last weekends opening of the latest link in Sound Transit’s Link Light Rail, there was lots of talk about the […]
