Of Cottages and Individualism
This was written as a Facebook note in September of 2009. I’m reposting it because it is worth noting that I have always been deeply opposed to the sentimentality of the single-family neighborhood. This is why, as I’ve posted elsewhere, I find it discouraging to see the critique of single-family highjacked by the social justice […]
Where Did All The Money Go?
Dear Governor Inslee, We sent the attached letter to you back in December of last year asking you and the legislature to use financial institutions to rapidly issue rent relief, a system like the successful Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). This kind of program would have paid rent first and then documentation. Your Commerce Department rejected this idea […]
Mark Sidran on Compassion Seattle: It Makes Things Worse
Lately, I have done most of my blog post writing at Forbes. Along with my series about the future of rental housing in the United States, I wrote about something called Compassion Seattle, a campaign to amend the charter of the City of Seattle, called Charter Amendment 29 (CA 29). Many of you will be […]
