Letter to Legislature Ahead of Session: Be Efficient, Listen to Housing Providers
December 3, 2020 Dear Legislator, These are difficult and challenging times. Federal, state, and local government have implemented measures to prevent the spread of Covid-19 that have meant job and income loss. This income loss has created housing insecurity. Eviction bans do nothing to ameliorate this. On the contrary, eviction bans have encouraged some concerned […]
Back to Basics:Where to After the Election?
Here’s a long reflective after-election post on how we might rescue some basic principles and rethink our approach to how we make policy. If we believe in a free market system for housing, we’ve got to anchor it something deeper than next quarter’s internal rates of return or whether we got a “better bill” in […]
A Global Look at the State of Women in CRE
At Seattle for Growth, we join in celebrating International Women’s Day. In order to advance women’s careers in historically male dominated industries, such as commercial real estate, it is important to have a grasp on where they stand currently. Here is a global look at the position of women in commercial real estate. Canada Women […]
