The View From Up Here: State Ignores Big Questions About the Housing Trust Fund
The reason I posted the 5 part series on land use and housing week before last was because I felt like the conversation we’ve been having about housing has become needlessly confounded with a whole bunch of ideology and efforts to use people’s frustration about housing prices to gather political power and advantage. I also […]
Digging Up Bones: When It Comes to Housing, Not Much Has Changed Since 1998
I’ve been going through some old boxes and among other things, I’ve discovered some articles I wrote in the late 1990s. Among the many peculiarities of finding things from the past is the fact that these articles aren’t available electronically. Back then, in order to use these articles I had to cut them out, arrange […]
Leadership: Can It Happen Here?
All right. Hell with this country, if it’s like that. All these years I’ve worked—and I never did want to be on all these committees and boards and charity drives!—and don’t they look silly now! What I always wanted to do was to sneak off to an ivory tower—or anyway, celluloid, imitation ivory—and read everything […]
