Owen Pickford
Owen is a solutions engineer for a software company. He has an amateur interest in urban policy, focusing on housing. His primary mode is a bicycle but isn't ashamed of riding down the hill and taking the bus back up. Feel free to tweet at him: @pickovven.
(There's a lot of data in the 2013 HUD report on homelessness. This is part 2 of The Urbanist's series to better understand this data....
(There’s a lot of data in the 2013 HUD report on homelessness. This is part 1 of The Urbanist’s series to better understand this data....
The United States is the only country among wealthy European, Asian and North American countries that doesn't have a national minimum vacation requirement. France...
Trulia's blog provides another important contribution about housing costs. The most recent post includes the graph above. This graph reinforces the evidence that the price...
Changes To Parking On Westlake
The Seattle Department of Transportation will be reducing it's parking subsidy along Westlake this month. The city owns a tremendous...
In order to examine the Incentive Zoning (IZ) Program, the city hired analysts to model some different outcomes based on various assumptions. The analysts...
Seattle's council has spent a lot of the last year trying to figure out how to address housing costs. Continuing this conversation, four council members...
Last week was the first meeting for the micro-housing working group. Council Member Mike O'Brien announced the working group during a prior Planning, Land Use...