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Dupre + Scott: Why Rent Increases Feel Like a Ride on a Skyrocket

I can’t resist another post based on the latest Apartment Advisor Newsletter from Dupre + Scott. One of the great services Dupre + Scott has done over the last few years of the housing discussion in Seattle is to temper the heated rhetoric about “skyrocketing” rents by trying to inject some data and facts into the discussion. In […]

We’re #32!: Seattle Data Doesn’t Warrant Rent Panic

I pointed out yesterday in my post about the Seattle Way that here in Seattle we haven’t been very smart about housing policy. That’s mostly because we rely on data that has no relationship to the housing market place or the way people actually build, finance, and buy housing products. If we look at data […]

O’Brien, Sawant Grandstand While Apartment Owner Fixes Problems

It’s a pretty simple story. A new owner buys a building that has run down from an owner who used the deferred maintenance as a subsidy for lower rents. Often the buildings are so run down they don’t meet City standards for heal the and safety. So the new owner has to make repairs and […]