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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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More Discussion About Parking at City Hall

The City Council’s Planning Land Use and Sustainability (PLUS) Committee heard back from Department of Planning and Development (DPD) staff yesterday reporting on a review of parking policy. The report was added to microhousing legislation last year by Councilmember Rasmussen who, by all accounts, seems to be on something of a campaign to add more parking […]

We Don’t Need Rent Control!

I have a guest editorial at Publicola about rent control. The editorial goes through what I wrote about earlier this week about the fact that we already have lots of rent restricted units in town and that we can always add more. Publicola published my modification of Councilmemer Sawants Soviet style posters calling for rent […]

44 Percent of Rental Units in Seattle Between 0-80 AMI Have Rent Restrictions

I have already pointed out before that rent control (really a price control) won’t work. Price controls never work to do the thing they are supposed to do: lower prices. And there is almost unanimity among economists who haven’t just speculated theoretically on the topic but studied it that rent control doesn’t work. But what […]