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What are you for?

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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Rise Seattle Podcast: Talking Seattle Housing, Culture, and Change

I had the opportunity to have a great conversation with Tyler Davis Jones and Phil Greely who turn conversations like ours into a podcast called Rise Seattle. Davis Jones is a Seattle based Real Estate Broker at Windermere Real Estate and originally from Nashville and moved to Seattle in 2012. Greely is a Seattle native with more than eight years experince […]

First In Time Rule Overturned as Unconstitutional

We just found out late this evening that the appeal of Seattle’s First in Time rule — a requirement that a landlord rent to the first person shows up — was overturned. I haven’t had time to fully digest all the elements of the ruling but the language is very favorable. It was a breathtaking […]

City Builder: The City Council’s Housing Policy is Like Eating Tide Pods

Over at Facebook’s City Builders page someone was not happy with my tone in the last post about Councilmember Sawant’s latest creation, a $150 million tax on jobs for housing. But Brandon Adams offered the following analogy with completely explains my tone: total frustration. I’ve made allusions to Cassandra and Laocoon (a liberal arts education is a […]