Seattle Times: More Housing Means Lower Prices
The headline in the Seattle Times tells the story of housing prices:”Seattle Rents Growing at Among Slowest Rates in Country as Apartment Boom Reaches Record. And are prices growing slowly? About 1 in 10 apartments across the city remain empty, and perks like a free month’s rent have become standard at most new buildings, and […]
F**K Inflation: Everyone is After the Wrong Enemy
Well, maybe this will get your attention post no-collusion Sunday. The real enemy of poor people is not gentrification, something that has no quantitative measure, but inflation, something that does. Prices are going up. Yes. They are. That’s real. But why? It isn’t because white people are pushing black people out of certain neighborhoods. But […]
Please Read: The Problems with the Problem of Homelessness
The way we talk about homelessness has always bothered me. I don’t think we have a definition of the problem that helps develop good policy. You can’t solve a problem that can’t be defined and measured. And the causes? The causes of homelessness are often the jumping off point for a policies that extract money […]
