It’s Time to End Public Subsidies for Private Golf Courses
With about one year’s worth of Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA) funds we could use eminent domain to secure the private and exclusive Broadmoor and...
The Crossroads: Finding Home as Covid Compounds Our Housing Crisis
The Covid-19 pandemic has thrust the world into uncertain times. In the United States, the coronavirus has now claimed the lives of over 100,000...
Seattle Council Postpones Business Tax Debate Over Protests of Morales and Sawant
Council President M. Lorena González has postponed budget committee meetings on the big business tax proposal sponsored by Councilmembers Kshama Sawant and Tammy Morales until...
Midweek Video: The Case Against Single-Family Zoning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajSEIdjkU8E&t=83s
In a relatively short video, Dave Amos, the presenter of City Beautiful, examines the problems of exclusive single-family zoning. He challenges the paradigm, urging...
Seattle Council Extends Eviction Moratorium Through December
Being evicted for nonpayment of rent won't really be a thing for Seattle tenants in 2020--at least if tenants assert the rights they won...
Sunday Video: Skinny Toronto Home As A Prototype
https://youtu.be/PfqXqJxwFfI
With a 16-foot wide lot in the middle of a city, what can be done to build a single residence for a family?
Council Passes Emergency Design Review Ordinance Easing Backlog
Last week, the Seattle City Council couldn't muster the votes to pass an emergency ordinance to keep design review moving during the pandemic era,...
Wonkabout Washington: Lessons in Intergenerational Organizing from Olympia
We’re all socially distancing here in Washington but last
week we convened a group of land use leaders in Olympia for a discussion about
how to...