Seattle For Growth on the Seattle Channel: Smart Solutions Needed for Showbox, URMs
Last week I had the opportunity to push back on the notion that the only way to “save” the Showbox theater downtown is to slap a historic designation on it. This makes absolutely no sense. The problem with the Showbox venue — and old brick building downtown slated for demolition to make way for housing — […]
Comments on the Fair Housing Act
I posted earlier about the comments I was putting together for the Department of Housing And Urban Development as they consider changes to the implementation of the Fair Housing Act. I’ll write more later about where this process goes, the history and future of the act, and what role the federal government might play in […]
Democrats and Preemption: The Looming Threat of Rent Control
You might remember a post from earlier this year of an e-mail I sent to Senator Jamie Pedersen. The Senator said publicly that he thought rent control is a bad idea and acknowledged it doesn’t work to help people struggling with housing costs. But then he said he would support HB 2583, a bill that would, […]
