I’ll Support the Jobs Tax If it Pays People’s Rent

Kshama Sawant is at it again. Later today she’ll assemble a mob demanding that the City tax Amazon and “big businesses” for $150 million per year to build affordable housing. This reveals her complete ignorance of what’s going on in housing production and weakens her credentials as a socialist. If she understood the housing market […]

King County and Seattle Took Biggest Share of Housing Trust Funds from 2008-2016

I fell down a rabbit hole of data this past weekend, digging around 8 years of Housing Trust Fund (HTF) data. While the HTF doesn’t fund all non-profit affordable housing in Washington or Seattle, it forms an important part of the funding mix. The data I was working with was an Excel worksheet with all […]