Message to Developers: Stop Paying Exactions, Start Fighting Back!
What will end the “housing crisis?” As long as developers keep paying for certainty the crisis will continue. As long as non-profits refuse to recognize that rising costs mean fewer, more expensive units for them, the crisis will continue. As long as politicians and the public continue to say we need “more affordable housing” rather […]
KING 5 Story: Is Washington State’s Non-Profit Housing System Fair and Efficient?
People make mistakes. Things get confused. The media can sometimes put a headline into circulation before a situation is resolved. I say these things before I mention a story that aired on KING 5 about a couple very highly placed in state government that apparently owns a subsidized condominium in Bellevue. I feel sorry for […]
Do the Math: Cutting Police, Pay, and Budgets Would Yield 137 Units, Someday, Maybe
Here we go again. Yet another proposal to flush more cash into “affordable housing.” Notice that the press and the proponents never ask and never offer what the money will buy. Performance artist and sometimes City Councilmember Kshama Sawant now wants to make big budget cuts, including to the police force, to give $48 million […]
