When Bad Ideas Start Commuting: Will MIZ Go to Tacoma?
Rumor has it that the Tacoma City Council is now considering using Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning (MIZ) to address housing issues there. This is why it is so important to not make bad policy for whatever reason. It has a tendency to spread. As I’ve pointed out about a million times before, the idea of taxing […]
City of Seattle: Still No Movement on Reducing Costs of Housing
Later today we’ll convene an initial meeting to talk about approaches to legally challenge the City of Seattle’s Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning (MIZ) program they call Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA). And we’re well underway, on more than one front, with a review of costs of non-profit housing. It’s pretty simple: non-profits are running out of money […]
Reforming the Housing Trust Fund: Grays Harbor Housing Crisis, No Funding for a Decade
Last week a came across a story about the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church visiting a housing rally in Aberdeen in Grays Harbor County. The news report in The Daily World summed up the visit and the demands of local activists, “that sought to highlight homelessness in the city and push for 2,000 new […]
