Dude, Where’s My Journalism
Locally based writer for the New York Times Tom Egan trotted out a bunch hackneyed terms and phrases about growth in an article titled “Dude, Where’s My City?” It left me asking Egan, “Dude, where’s your editor?” Here’s a paragraph that was among the worst: Rising rents threaten to push out the quirky and creative types […]
Hold the Date: How to Build Support for More Housing in Seattle
“How to Build Support for More Housing in Seattle: Advocacy and Grassroots Organizing” McCormick & Schmick’s Harborside Restaurant 1200 Westlake Ave N, Seattle, WA 98109 Thursday, April 28, 2016 | 6:00 – 8:30 PM Join Roger Valdez, Director of Smart Growth Seattle, and Sonja Trauss, principal at the San Francisco Bay Area Renters’ Federation (SF […]
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 […]
