Seattle City Council Starts Slow Slide Toward Rent Control
Yesterday the Planning Land Use and Sustainability (PLUS) Committee discussed renter protection legislation that was offered to try and stop supposed abuses of the City’s Tenant Relocation Assistance Ordinance (TRAO) requirements. The claim, only anecdotal, is that land lords are trying to get rid of tenants by boosting their rents dramatically — it’s called economic eviction. But […]
Surprise! Build Less, Get Rich, Price Out the Poor
The Registry, a blog about the San Francisco real estate market, ran a great post on housing supply and demand, transportation, and wealth by John McNellis called Let them Commute. Along with the headline’s reference to Marie Antoinette’s famous and misunderstood quote “let them eat cake,” he also quotes F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby: the […]
Roosevelt Reservoir: Broad Consensus on City Owned Land for Housing.
The debate over how to address housing issues in Seattle is a contentious one, right? It’s even hard sometimes to agree on what the problem is and of course that means differences on what to do. But there doesn’t seem to be anyone, developers, non-profit affordable housing advocates, Councilmemeber Sawant, and neighborhoods who disagree about […]
