It’s election season and there a lot of candidates running for office in Seattle. One key office, City Attorney, is up for election. This key office is often not talked about by people concerned with housing and development, but it matters. Incumbent Pete Holmes’ office argued somewhat famously now that, “laws can be bad, but […]
One of the frustrating aspects of talking about housing and trying to do something about it, is the lack of good self reported data about how renters feel about their life as renters. Too often the data pours out about how how much people who rent spend per month as a percentage of gross income. […]
Sometimes I feel like I’ve been writing the same blog post over and over again for the last 10 years, and you probably feel like you’ve been reading the same post for a decade too. What’s confounding about my work and writing over the years is the degree to which very little has changed except […]