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What are you for?

We are for creating more housing of all types, in all neighborhoods, for all levels of income. We are for jobs. We are for opportunity. We are for change. We are for innovation. We are for progress. We are for growth! We are for jobs. We are for opportunity. We are for change. We are for innovation. We are for progress. We are for growth!

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Gonzalez “Plan” is More of a Fantasy

I’ve already pointed out that candidate for Mayor Lorena Gonzalez’ plan isn’t a plan at all but mostly a word salad intended to trigger sentiments in voters. The only plan behind what Gonzalez has offered on housing and homelessness is that voters will hear the right words enough times that they’ll vote for her. But […]

Of Cottages and Individualism

This was written as a Facebook note in September of 2009. I’m reposting it because it is worth noting that I have always been deeply opposed to the sentimentality of the single-family neighborhood. This is why, as I’ve posted elsewhere, I find it discouraging to see the critique of single-family highjacked by the social justice […]

Where Did All The Money Go?

Dear Governor Inslee,  We sent the attached letter to you back in December of last year asking you and the legislature to use financial institutions to rapidly issue rent relief, a system like the successful Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). This kind of program would have paid rent first and then documentation. Your Commerce Department rejected this idea […]