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. […]
It Isn’t Too Early to Say it: “I told you so!”
Laocoon, follow’d by a num’rous crowd, Ran from the fort, and cried, from far, aloud: ‘O wretched countrymen! what fury reigns? What more than madness has possess’d your brains? Vergil, Aeneid, 2.40, John Dryden Translation The media in Seattle has been lagging in its curiosity about the City’s Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA) scheme. It was impossible […]
Power of Narrative: Rent Control is Back (but it Never Left)
Remember the Renters’ Commission? The City passed legislation to create it a few years ago amid some tepid protest from those of us who felt it would, yes, simply be a City funded platform to organize for rent control. Of course, the Commission dutifully recommended on April 1 (seriously) that the City needed rent control. […]
