Upzoning Seattle’s Comfort Zone
I have a guest editorial at Publicola that builds on some of my other commentary on how zoning in Seattle tends to reinforce segregation of people and family by race and class. I think the post is a bit challenging because it keeps pushing the wedge between the crowd in Seattle that tends to be […]
Still Making it Worse?: A Year Later
About a year ago we put together a video to call out the City Council’s woeful record on housing policy. The point of the video was to draw attention to the need for a plan. Well, now we have one. The Mayor’s Housing Affordability and Livability Agenda (HALA) Committee has produced what we asked for, […]
Seattle Times Story: “I Am Not a Lobbyist!”
A liberal arts education is a terrible things to waste, so I was happy with the title of a profile on my work for Smart Growth Seattle headlined, Sharp Tongued Philosopher a Provocateur for Urban Density. But if you read through the piece you’d come away either with the impression that I am a lobbyist […]
