From a Builder: Rent Control Will Kill 39 Unit Project
This morning at 10:00 in Olympia House Bill 2583 will have a hearing in front of the House Judiciary Committee. The legislation would repeal what amounts to a ban on local governments enacting rent control, a widely discredited and failed policy of price controlling housing. That we are even arguing about rent control is a […]
Typology: From Shelter to Investment
Here it is one week since our name change. I wish could say it went off without a glitch, but we had some. We were offline due to some kind of hacking from someone planting malware on the site. We got that cleaned up, and our email finally synced up as well, so it looks […]
Durkan’s Housing Plan is About More Money, Not More Housing
Jenny Durkan has a housing plan. While it touts microhousing as part of the solution and supports the notion of vouchers (just helping people with their rent now) as being more efficient that building $500,000 units in 5 years, it still is missing the fundamental point: we have a housing scarcity problem, not a public funding problem. […]
