Washington’s First Pro-Housing Political Action Committee: Fair Housing Washington
Ok. You’re right. There are other political action committees (PAC) out there that support or oppose candidates and issues based on housing issues. But what Fair Housing Washington does is to go beyond the trade association or constituency model of PACs to aim purely at good policy. What I mean is that the Rental Housing […]
I’ll Support the Jobs Tax If it Pays People’s Rent
Kshama Sawant is at it again. Later today she’ll assemble a mob demanding that the City tax Amazon and “big businesses” for $150 million per year to build affordable housing. This reveals her complete ignorance of what’s going on in housing production and weakens her credentials as a socialist. If she understood the housing market […]
Seattle Times: “No Thanks” to Op Ed on Facts About Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning
One of my earliest memories of poetry and of libraries was finding a book of poetry by e.e. cummings called “No Thanks.” It was compelling for all the reasons cummings poetry is compelling; innovative, confusing, and full of flashes of insight. But it was also rejected by 14 publishers before cummings just published it himself calling […]
