Impact Fee Appeal: Our Response to the City’s Motion to Dismiss

What follows is our response to the City of Seattle’s City’s motion to dismiss our appeal of their Determination of Non-Significance on a proposal to allow impact fees through an amendment of the Comprehensive Plan. You can read the documents in PDF form at the links below. Seattle For Growth Appeal City’s Motion to Dismiss Seattle For […]

Where Did Everyone Go? Twitter!

I’ll admit that awhile ago, I shifted away from social media and comment sections as my preferred location for engaging on the topic of housing and economics. It wasn’t necessarily a conscious choice, but part of a changed dynamic in the discussion. In Seattle, it’s almost as if people said everything that could be said […]

The Folly of the Fashionable War on Single-Family

I think I am probably over-promising in the headline. As I’ve pointed out before, people who somehow get that prices have something to do with supply but who can’t support people making a living producing it, are all a twitter about what they’ve been reading about Minneapolis. The truth is that what Minneapolis did is […]