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So Far, the Race for Mayor Doesn’t Look Good for Housing

Note: Mayoral Candidate Mike McGinn will visit our regular Seattle Builders Council Breakfast Thursday morning at 7:30, May 4th. All candidates and public officials are welcome at our breakfast to have some time to share their thoughts and their messages although we don’t have a formal endorsement process. McGinn wanted a chance to express his […]

Cortright: The High, High Price of Affordable Housing

Joe Cortright who writes for City Observatory has corroborated what I’ve been saying for quite some time now: the non-profit housing industrial complex produces subsidized housing very, very inefficiently. The costs are substantial. In San Francisco, one of the largest all-affordable housing projects, 1950 Mission Street, clocks in at more than $600,000 per unit.  That number […]

From HUD: MIZ Produces Few Units, More Study of Costs Needed

This was originally a follow up e-mail to the Housing Affordability Response Team (HART) I posted yesterday.  PS I wanted to share this article, Producing Affordable Housing in Rising Markets: What Works? for what it’s worth. Along with a critique of Inclusionary zoning it also calls for more study of costs and production, especially of […]