Why Stop at Rent Control? Herbold Wants Neighborhood Control
If you thought the drubbing the City Council took over the head tax taught them to avoid bad ideas, think again. Councilmember Herbold is willing to try anything to “solve” housing prices except allowing more housing, including mandating who gets to live in what neighborhood. This is from an email she sent this week: Community […]
Where Are Rents Rising Fast? Not Seattle.
I’m not going to write much, just link to a recent study of rents nationwide by Apartment List, a paragraph and two images. Here’s the paragraph: City rankings change substantially from year to year. From 2017 to 2018, Seattle experienced the largest drop in the rankings, after experiencing rent growth above 5 percent for each year […]
Council Flips and Flops: Repeal of Tax on Jobs Set for Noon Today
What’s a more stunning indictment of an elected body, making horrible policy on weak principles or, when confronted with an angry public after doing that, doing a 180 and repealing the policy? The Seattle City Council will have done both when later today by most reports they will repeal the tax on jobs they passed […]
