Housing Trust Fund: Vacancy Rates Down in Many Rural Areas
We’ve looked at where Housing Trust Fund resources have gone between 2008 and 2016 by population, wages, and poverty. If need for housing subsidies is defined by income and poverty levels, clearly there’s a lot of need outside Seattle and King County, maybe more need. So what about vacancy rates in rural Washington. Vacancy rates […]
Jobs Tax: Chamber Begins Begging and Pleading Campaign
The Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce may be near the ending of its useful life as an advocacy organization for business in Seattle. Taken together, minimum wage increases, paid leave, and meddling with employee schedules have all added to making Seattle an increasingly difficult place to run a small or medium sized business. This doesn’t […]
Seattle Wants to Tax Jobs: More Money, More Money, More Money!
Seattle as a city and as a government is becoming notorious for creating task forces, committees, and other convening’s to come up with solutions to “big problems.” Almost without exception, the task force states the problem as “severe” a “crisis” or a problem at such as scale to demand action now. Usually there are big […]
