Forbes: Impact Fees? Local Government Should Provide Infrastructure for Free
I’ve been writing a lot more at Forbes lately. This month has fit that pattern. Yesterday I put up a post there about infrastructure that was based on my thoughts after using bike share on bike lanes here in Seattle. What we’re doing with transportation infrastructure, as a matter of policy, is paying for it […]
Showbox: A Case Study in Confusion and Misdirection on Growth
A recent story about Seattle’s latest incoherent response to growth and housing policy starts out, “Emotions have been running high in Seattle over the Showbox..” True. Emotions and not much else. The story in Curbed reports on the failure in court by the City of Seattle to defend it’s efforts to zone the location of […]
Changing the Narrative: Minneapolis Owners and Tenants Show How
Check out my post at Forbes about an aggressive push back on bad tenant landlord policy that’s underway in Minneapolis. Like Seattle, well intended people and some power driven Councilmembers burnishing their lefty credentials are trying to shutdown the tenant screening process. This is absurd. All this will do is make life worse for tenants. […]
