Don’t Be Fooled: Rent Stabilization is Rent Control
Tomorrow 7 Seattle City Council seats are up for grabs. I already wrote last week about how the local, self-proclaimed, business community is supporting Egan Orion with hundreds of thousands of dollars even though Orion supports rent control. But wait. He doesn’t support rent control. Orion supports rent stabilization. Oh, stabilization. Got it. There’s a […]
The Orion Effect: When Business Won’t Defend Its Own Rational Interests
There is a scene in Monty Python’s Holy Grail that, sometimes, seems to be the story of my life. A King is trying to be sure his son follows through with an arranged marriage. The son, Herbert (or Alice) doesn’t want to go through with it. As the King is leaving, he gets two of […]
Who Supports Rent Control? The City of Seattle
Recently the 32nd Democratic legislative district organization passed a resolution supporting rent control. Here’s an image of the wordy document. The advocates and Sawant noted that it was “endorsed without opposition.” Local Democrats who have a big impact on the upcoming election are falling in line to support rent control But remember, that the City’s official […]
