Thoughts on 2019 and 2020: What’s Next is Up to You
I had written a longer post on this topic but it disappeared. Maybe that’s a good thing since that post expressed a lot of frustration with where we’ve been in not just the last year but the last six years. So here’s another try and we’ll see if the hacker or internet gods let this […]
Seattle Eviction Ban: Not Compassionate, Not Needed, Not Legal
Update: You can send a message to council about this here. The eviction myth persists. Now it forms that basis of a demand that evictions be banned during “winter months.” It starts with garbage data. The claim is that (see the featured image) that, 87.5 of renters evicted in 2017 became homeless as a result […]
Don’t Be Fooled: Rent Stabilization is Rent Control
Tomorrow 7 Seattle City Council seats are up for grabs. I already wrote last week about how the local, self-proclaimed, business community is supporting Egan Orion with hundreds of thousands of dollars even though Orion supports rent control. But wait. He doesn’t support rent control. Orion supports rent stabilization. Oh, stabilization. Got it. There’s a […]
