Mugatu Moment: MHA Fees Won’t Pay for Promised Non-Profit Subsidized Housing
In the press coverage of almost any public policy proposal there is a lot of debate about the numbers, especially how much new revenue might be raised and how it would be used. When it comes to Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning (MIZ) and Seattle’s version of it, Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA) there seems to be very […]
High Costs Mean High Prices: Cost and Delay List Keeps Growing
The list of costs and delays to housing production in Seattle that I have been curating has grown to over 40 items. Each of these has it’s own stories. I am exploring how we can use Smartsheet to make the list accessible to builders and developers so they can add, elaborate, correct, and, I hope, […]
Non-Profits On $500K Units: “It Is Simply Too Complicated to Explain.”
I don’t usually root around lots of public meeting minutes, even for City Council or legislative meetings. But for some reason yesterday I thought I’d look up the last few meetings of the Capitol Hill Housing Board of Directors. You may not know it, but Capitol Hill Housing is a Public Development Authority which means […]
