Ranting about America’s housing crisis, which is real enough, Fox host Tucker Carlson told his gullible audience, “So, why is it happening? Well, lots of reasons, but one reason it’s happening is America is becoming a lot more crowded than it ever was, and one of the reasons for th[...]
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June 29th, 2021 - 2:12 pm § in Economics
What’s behind rabid housing prices?
Two things, primarily. First, the 2007-2008 housing crash and subsequent recession shut down homebuilding for several years, but the U.S. population kept growing, which created a long-term housing shortage. It will take years for new construction to catch up. Second, the Federal Reserve flooded the [...]
June 22nd, 2020 - 4:48 pm § in Economics
America’s next housing crisis
With more than 20 million Americans still unemployed, and eviction moratoriums about to expire, America faces a new housing crisis. Millions of households suffering income loss from Covid-19 can’t pay rent. Moratoriums and one-time stimulus payments provided some temporary, short-lived relief;[...]
June 3rd, 2019 - 1:09 am § in Misc.
A REAL ANSWER TO HOUSING IN SEATTLE
Othello Square TAKES ON THE ISSUE June 1, 2019 from the Seattle Times, excerpted and commented Seattle’s continuing condescension leads to a bizarre picture .. too few middle-class homes and black flight. In a city with the highest salaries in the nation and vast numbers of millionaires and bi[...]
September 17th, 2017 - 1:56 am § in The Ave Scene
Hong Kong offers the future of housing in Seattle
IS THIS SEATTLE”S FUTURE?[...]
April 4th, 2017 - 8:48 am § in The Ave Scene
DEMOLISHED! Living in Seattle’s Housing Market
Just a few blocks from our house, the people who bought this house last December demolished it. Seattle’s median home price hit a record: $700,000, double 5 years ago March was easily the priciest month for real estate in the Puget Sound region’s history, and we haven’t yet reached the pe[...]
March 13th, 2017 - 1:09 am § in Misc.
Seattle’s Crisis? Is it about housing or about taxes?
http://www.seattletimes.com/…/more-money-for-homeless-seat…/ Another great column by Danny Westneat at the Times. More money for homeless? Seattle consultants said no last fall Six months ago, two consultants told the city of Seattle it could shelter most of the homeless without any additional m[...]
February 28th, 2017 - 1:21 am § in The Ave Scene
Seattle’s Housing Horror Show
Bill Bradburd Mayor Ed Murray is a hypocrite and dissembles with the best of them. Sayeth the Mayor ““We cannot be a city where people protest the exclusionary agenda coming from Washington, D.C., while at the same time keeping a zoning code in place that does not allow us to build the affor[...]
February 20th, 2017 - 12:04 am § in The Ave Scene
Housing in Seattle: What you get for 1/2 million dollars
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November 1st, 2016 - 10:15 am § in The Ave Scene
Is ST3 about creating LA? Or is it about planning a “new” Sound-opolis with local high density housing?
Transportation Proposed light-rail expansion includes 8,560 park-and-ride stalls — but is it enough? Sound Transit 3’s investment in parking is likely critical to some voters’ support to expand light rail deep into the suburbs — north to Everett, east to Issaquah and Redmond and south to Tac[...]