Comments to the Legislature on JLARC Findings
Last week we sent the legislature these comments on the findings and recommendations of the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Committee’s (JLARC) analysis of housing costs across the non-profit and for-profit sectors. The JLARC review was precipitated by language in the 2017 Washington State operating budget we requested. I’ve written about the results but I’ve heard […]
Curb Your Enthusiasm on Single-Family Abolition and Stop Rising Costs and MHA
There has been a lot of breathless hullabaloo about Seattle’s planning commission report pointing out that single-family zoning is a problem. The headline for their report in the Seattle Times was Seattle’s housing crunch could be eased by changes to single-family zoning, City report says. Meanwhile, all sorts of noise has been made about some […]
First Read of JLARC Study: More Smaller Units Could Lower Per Unit Costs
The Joint Legislative Audit and Review Committee (JLARC) has released their study of housing costs that we supported in the State Budget in 2017. It was supposed to compare non-profit housing costs with market rate housing costs. It didn’t do that. In spite of our offer to help JLARC get market rate data, they said […]
