Seattle and King County See Increase of Unsheltered Homeless
In the early morning hours of Friday, January 23rd, volunteers spread across King County in order to complete the One Night Count. This annual...
‘One Night Count’ Is Tonight
Every January, a count of our fellow residents experiencing homelessness is conducted across Seattle and King County. Last year, the results of the One...
Farewell to 2014: It Was the Year of The Urbanist
2014 was an unassuming year for The Urbanist. At the outset of it, The Urbanist was little more than an idea. But late January...
Seattle Housing Authority Shelves “Stepping Forward”
The Executive Director of Seattle Housing Authority, Andrew Lofton, sent a letter to the mayor today indicating that the proposed changes known as "Stepping...
City Considers Municipal Bank
The Seattle City Council held a briefing Wednesday afternoon on the creation of a municipal bank. Councilmember Licata, chair of the Finance and Culture...
Comment on the Mayor’s Housing Affordability and Livability Agenda
Seattle Mayor Ed Murray has an initiative to establish policies and goals for housing affordability and livability within the city. The Mayor's initiative is...
Linkage Fees are a supply-side solution: Or, how land owners end up paying for...
Linkage Fees, proposed fees on new development to pay for affordable housing, have a lot of critics. And the critics' arguments are probably all...
Living with yo ‘rents
Multi-generational housing has seen steadily increasing demand throughout Northern Europe, and stateside as well. The concept even hit the NYT late in 2012. While I don’t...