Wanted: Bi-Partisain Effort to Reform Housing in Washington State
This is my email to State Senator Guy Palumbo and State Senator Mark Mullet who wrote an important opinion editorial in the Seattle Times over the weekend. I’m hoping their join our reform efforts not for more and more and more money, but sensible, fair and efficient reforms. Palumbo and Mullet are Democrats. Will they […]
Reform on the Road: Great Visit to Granger
Last week I had the pleasure of touring several Farmworker housing projects in Granger. The tour was lead by Marty Miller and Cristina Ruiz of the Office of Rural and Farmworker Housing and included the Mayor of Granger, State Senator Judy Warnick, and people from the Washington Policy Center, Center for Latino Farmers, the Grant […]
Seattle: Turning Point, Boiling Point, or Point of No Return?
What a month! Back on May 2nd I arrived back in Seattle from Chicago. I went from the airport to my apartment, dropped off my stuff, and then took a Lyft up to a Ballard church where I saw something I’d seen before, angry neighbors. But this was a bit different. The assembled mob was […]
