Washington’s First Pro-Housing Political Action Committee: Fair Housing Washington
Ok. You’re right. There are other political action committees (PAC) out there that support or oppose candidates and issues based on housing issues. But what Fair Housing Washington does is to go beyond the trade association or constituency model of PACs to aim purely at good policy. What I mean is that the Rental Housing […]
Digging Up Bones: Farmworker Housing Remains a Serious Need
I’ve written about it before, but this article goes back 20 years. Today’s shortage of farm labor (see: Washington growers struggle with a labor shortage) is made worse by lack of housing in rural Washington. Meanwhile the Housing Trust Fund pours more and more cash into pricey projects in Seattle, projects that are made more expensive […]
Diving Deeper: Finding Out More About Building 9 and the Morck Hotel
Building 9 is not where the Air Force stores old flying saucers, it is a housing rehabilitation project proposed by Mercy Housing. Here is a description of the project: Building 9 will offer 148 apartments for working families and small households in the historic former Naval Air Station barracks. The project is located in the […]
