Seattle Times reporter Mike Rosenberg is out looking for more renters to tell their stories about “how high the rent is.” There doesn’t seem to be any interest at the Times in getting any better about doing the basic job of reporting what’s going on with housing. Of course rents are going up; the question […]
Sometime early in 2016 after the Grand Bargain — a deal between large developers like Vulcan who build in downtown and South Lake Union, the City, and non-profit developers — I scheduled a visit with Seattle’s smartest Councilmember, Lisa Herbold. Surely she’d get that the so called Bargain was letting downtown developers like Vulcan off […]
Next Thursday evening we’ll be hosting this year’s Seattle Builders Council Dinner with guest speakers John Wilson, King County Assessor and Simon Stevenson the director of the University of Washington’s Runstad Center for Real Estate Studies. We’ll be talking about the latest in housing policy in economics that are influencing housing supply in the months […]