City Builder: What Good Journalism Sounds Like
I’ve been critical of local reporting of growth, especially the Seattle Times which has shown a tendency to take the easy way out when writing about new development. The Times in particular has a bad habit of reporting economic news about housing in a matter of fact way on the business pages, but when their reporters […]
Rent Control on Blabbermouth
I was happy to wade into a debate about rent control on The Stranger’s Blabbermouth podcast last week. There aren’t many voices, including on the City Council (with the exception of Councilmember Bagshaw who attended a twist and shout meeting about rent control last week but wasn’t allowed to say anything), standing up to challenge the […]
Seattle City Council Starts Slow Slide Toward Rent Control
Yesterday the Planning Land Use and Sustainability (PLUS) Committee discussed renter protection legislation that was offered to try and stop supposed abuses of the City’s Tenant Relocation Assistance Ordinance (TRAO) requirements. The claim, only anecdotal, is that land lords are trying to get rid of tenants by boosting their rents dramatically — it’s called economic eviction. But […]
