HALA Detail: Will Council Fully Support HALA’s Cottage Recommendations?
As an intern with Smart Growth Seattle over the past couple of months I have been charged with several duties. One of which was digging into each of HALA’s 65 (really 74) recommendations. The process involved uncovering who is responsible, who benefits, and what, if anything, has been done with the report’s many contentious recommendations […]
HALA’s Highest Impact Recommendations: Is Anyone Working on Them?
What bedevils the housing conversation in Seattle today is the confusion between the 65 recommendations in the Housing Affordability and Livability Agenda (HALA) Committee Mayor Murray convened last year and one of those recommendations and the most problematic, Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning (MIZ) also known as the Grand Bargain. Even last week at a panel discussion a colleague said […]
Sonja Trauss on MIZ: What’s Actually Going to Happen
Last Thursday one of my heros, Sonja Trauss, was in town because I invited her to speak at the Seattle Builders Council dinner. We all had a good time. And Trauss did not disappoint with her presentation, challenging the audience to talk differently about housing, and profit, and how we need more housing to solve […]
