Up In Smoke: Seattle Favors Money Supply Over Housing Supply
Somehow, growing up in the 1970s and 80s, I missed seeing any Cheech and Chong movies. But not that long ago, I watched some clips of the duo in action. I think they are adequate mascots if not analogs for Seattle’s political class. After wrenching more than $750 million for housing, local tubthumpers want more […]
Oh Boy. Here We Go. Seattle Banning Credit Checks?
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: We are seeing the slow erosion of private rental property in Seattle and the United States. But the takeover of housing by government is speeding up. Last week the Seattle Renters’ Commission wrote a long letter to the Seattle City Council urging the end of credit […]
Senator Kuderer: Misinformed or Dishonest?
State Senator Patty Kuderer is the Chair of the Senate’s housing committee. She is a personal injury attorney as a profession. Over the years she’s held lots of “stakeholder” sessions in Olympia about eviction bans. Eviction lawyers tend to do very well after her sessions are finished. We know what happens in housing stakeholder sessions […]
