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 […]
High Costs Mean High Prices: Cost and Delay List Keeps Growing
The list of costs and delays to housing production in Seattle that I have been curating has grown to over 40 items. Each of these has it’s own stories. I am exploring how we can use Smartsheet to make the list accessible to builders and developers so they can add, elaborate, correct, and, I hope, […]
