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We are for creating more housing of all types, in all neighborhoods, for all levels of income. We are for jobs. We are for opportunity. We are for change. We are for innovation. We are for progress. We are for growth! We are for jobs. We are for opportunity. We are for change. We are for innovation. We are for progress. We are for growth!

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HALA Recommendations: Stop Death by 1000 Processes!

There is a lot of talk about supporting what people point to and call “HALA,” which is supposed to be shorthand for the recommendations of the Mayor’s Housing Affordability and Livability Agenda Committee. Unfortunately, often what “I support HALA” means is Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning (MIZ), the inflationary scheme that will add costs, reduce rent revenues, […]

Airbnb: Burgess’ Short-Term Rental Gambit Redistributes Scarcity

To this end, some propose mere welfare measures – while others come forward with grandiose systems of reform which, under the pretense of re-organizing society, are in fact intended to preserve the foundations, and hence the life, of existing society. Frederick Engels, on Bourgeois Socialists The Principles of Communism Seattle is entering a dangerous phase […]

Doing the Math? Try Again.

Chris Persons at Capitol Hill housing (who I have sparred with before) has a peculiar post called, “Doing the Math on Homelessness and Housing,” which needs a rewrite I think. I only point it out because the headline claims to “do the math,” and Persons math appears to be wrong and misleading. Let’s take it […]