California Study: More Private Development Means Lower Rents
It’s red herring week here at Smart Growth Seattle and today we put the “building new market housing causes displacement” and “inclusionary zoning helps that problem” red herrings in the compost bin. The headline of the blog post summing up a California Legislative Analyst Office (LAO) study says it all: Want to Slow Displacement? Then Build […]
I Can’t Imagine . . . The Seattle City Council Making Good Housing Policy
I call it the, “I can’t imagine . . . “ movement, an effort now being taken up by Councilmember Lisa Herbold to preserve what she’s calling “Legacy Businesses,” which have, as is usual with these sorts of things, been defined only vaguely and with anecdotes. According to her website, Councilmember Herbold has been accumulating […]
Homelessness and Encampments: What Can Seattle Learn from Utah?
Seattle’s Mayor Ed Murray took to the pages of the Seattle Times recently to bemoan the criticism he’s been getting for his proposal to sweep away homeless encampments throughout the city. Murray said that activists and supporters of a different approach were playing, “a tired, old ideological game,” starting a “food fight,” and engaging in […]
