Thoughts on 2019 and 2020: What’s Next is Up to You

I had written a longer post on this topic but it disappeared. Maybe that’s a good thing since that post expressed a lot of frustration with where we’ve been in not just the last year but the last six years. So here’s another try and we’ll see if the hacker or internet gods let this […]

The Stranger: More Fun With Real Estate Conspiracy Theories

Last week, we got the jump on a really misleading “report” that, once again, somehow, a relatively small number of real estate transactions are distorting the entire housing market. The Stranger felt compelled to respond with a flailing post that mentions my name 8 times but really doesn’t show how around 1,600 units of expensive […]

Countering Conspiracy Theories About Luxury Housing Ownership

Another “report” has emerged about housing in Seattle and the Seattle Times has a story about its claims that somehow less than two thousand pricey units are somehow destroying the whole housing economy in the city and making life hard for poor people. It’s nonsense. I caught wind of the 51 page analysis of just […]