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City Inside/Out: Mayor Murray Follows Sawant in Regulatory Overreach
I was on a panel last week on the Seattle Channel’s City Inside/Out, perhaps the best public affairs show in the region, to talk about the latest scheme hatched at City Hall to regulate housing. It isn’t much of a surprise that the proposed legislation to impose what amounts to a form of rent control […]
A Real Grand Bargain: Leave Single-Family Alone!
Let’s face it, zoning is obsolete; it’s a 20th century solution to a 19th century problem, the encroachment of intense and messy uses of land next to less intense uses of land. In the last century, almost a 100 years ago, toxic industrial uses and people shared the same block. Zoning was initially a kind […]
Folkenomics: The Mything Middle
A recent editorial I came across, “Election Season Reveals Rampant Economic Illiteracy Among Voters,” bemoans what I’ve been noticing for years: a deep and wide ignorance and rejection of basic economic principles among the American public and more specifically, voters. The article fails to put together a very good argument, instead it points to relevant […]
