Curb Your Enthusiasm on Single-Family Abolition and Stop Rising Costs and MHA

There has been a lot of breathless hullabaloo about Seattle’s planning commission report pointing out that single-family zoning is a problem. The headline for their report in the Seattle Times was Seattle’s housing crunch could be eased by changes to single-family zoning, City report says.  Meanwhile, all sorts of noise has been made about some […]

Knee Deep in The Big Muddy: Will City Press On with MIZ?

June 20, 2016 Re: Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning Proposal in PLUZ Committee on 6/20/2016 Mayor Murray and Councilmembers, Attached you will find a three page list of process hang ups, rules, regulations, and code language that each add time and cost to the production of housing in Seattle. Each of these is a solvable challenge and […]

Airbnb: Burgess’ Short-Term Rental Gambit Redistributes Scarcity

To this end, some propose mere welfare measures – while others come forward with grandiose systems of reform which, under the pretense of re-organizing society, are in fact intended to preserve the foundations, and hence the life, of existing society. Frederick Engels, on Bourgeois Socialists The Principles of Communism Seattle is entering a dangerous phase […]