Linkage Fees Will Impede Housing Production
At the heart of the debate over Seattle’s proposed linkage fee is the question of whether it undermines its own intent to provide affordable housing by either raising rents or impeding the production of housing. A recent post by Owen Pickford at The Urbanist argues that a linkage fee would have no negative impact on […]
Art Against Growth
I’m posting this because, well, it’s brilliant. Wrong, but brilliant. This was on a telephone pole on Capitol Hill.
The Adventures of Mike O’Brien and the Inefficiency of the Linkage Tax
What happens when good intentions, the urge to have government redistribute wealth*, and government inefficiency collide? Read Mike Lindbloom’s story about a City of Seattle program designed to help poor people with $20 reduction on their $60 car tabs. To give low-income drivers $20 rebates on their car-tab fees, Seattle’s city government intends to spend […]
