Seattle as a city and as a government is becoming notorious for creating task forces, committees, and other convening’s to come up with solutions to “big problems.” Almost without exception, the task force states the problem as “severe” a “crisis” or a problem at such as scale to demand action now. Usually there are big […]
As the legislative session winds down in Olympia, it isn’t too soon to start thinking about next year’s session. This year I think we did a pretty good job during the legislative session, defending the state’s preemption of local rent control measures, championing rural and urban collaboration with SB 6595, and forcing the non-profit industrial […]
In the press coverage of almost any public policy proposal there is a lot of debate about the numbers, especially how much new revenue might be raised and how it would be used. When it comes to Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning (MIZ) and Seattle’s version of it, Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA) there seems to be very […]