Oregon Leads on Accessory Dwelling Units
I attended the Housing Land Advocates Conference in Portland last week and presented on what happened to microhouisng. Microhousing is a new thing in Portland. My presentation had to highlight the fact that Seattle pretty much has closed down the microhousing product; some will still get built here, but not as many as before. But […]
How Liberals Make Life Worse for the Poor
I was sent two articles (one in The Atlantic the other in Bloomberg View) this last week about the fact that in the United States that more liberal and progressive cities usually have very expensive housing, so expensive that it can be linked to greater income inequality between the have’s and the have-nots in a […]
Microhousing: Politico Story Reminds Us What We Lost
Politico, an online journal of national politics, has a story about microhousing that extensively chronicles it’s rise and fall. What the story conveys, too, is that Seattle was the national leader in housing innovation — emphasis on the word was. Portland, Los Angeles, Minneapolis have all come calling, looking to Seattle and asking how to […]
