Error Message: Seattle Times Keeps Missing the Mark on MIZ and MHA
This is my response to the recent editorial in the Seattle Times on Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning (MIZ) and Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA), the City of Seattle’s scheme to take money from new housing development and give it to non-profits. It is only the latest in a long serious of communications with the Times to get […]
Full Disclosure? City’s Responses on MHA Questions More Peculiar than Helpful
We’re in the early stages of putting together a legal challenge of the City’s version of Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning (MIZ) called Mandatory Housing Affordability. The case may well rest on the most obvious of economic and legal questions, “How does new housing create an impact to the City by causing housing prices to go up,” and […]
New Campaign Ad Asks: “Where did all the money go” for Housing on the Peninsula?
The Rental Housing Association of Washington has taken out a radio advertisement asking the question I’ve been asking too: “where did all the housing money go that should have been helping people in need in Aberdeen?” I did a post on this question and compared how much housing could be built in Aberdeen, in Grays […]
