Senator Kuderer: Misinformed or Dishonest?
State Senator Patty Kuderer is the Chair of the Senate’s housing committee. She is a personal injury attorney as a profession. Over the years she’s held lots of “stakeholder” sessions in Olympia about eviction bans. Eviction lawyers tend to do very well after her sessions are finished. We know what happens in housing stakeholder sessions […]
Back to Basics:Where to After the Election?
Here’s a long reflective after-election post on how we might rescue some basic principles and rethink our approach to how we make policy. If we believe in a free market system for housing, we’ve got to anchor it something deeper than next quarter’s internal rates of return or whether we got a “better bill” in […]
CDC Eviction Ban: Making Stuff Up
I have a new post at Forbes about the latest unhelpful intervention in housing by government, a ban on evictions being imposed by the Centers for Disease Control. It is wrong headed, probably vulnerable to legal challenge, and does nothing to help people struggling to pay rent during the Covid-19 economic downturn. From the post: […]
