Make Amazon offer podments instead of parking spaces! Imagine if Amazon’s expected thousands of nerd employees wanted to buy cars! Where would they park? Read about the debate here. Sure, Jeff Bezos and company can build parking spaces under the worker hives, BUT … why not build underg[...]
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September 17th, 2013 - 10:07 pm § in America, The Ave Scene
How Podments Can Solve Seattle’s Urban Parking Issue!
August 3rd, 2015 - 5:57 pm § in The Ave Scene
Kshama Sawant: Rent Control Is Like a Minimum Wage for Tenants
Which Way for Affordable Housing in Seattle? Seattle is booming with job growth and a major influx of working people. Yes, we need increased housing supply. Yes, we need zoning changes to build more housing, and to enable a denser and more walkable and accessible city. But why is there such a severe[...]
June 29th, 2015 - 1:52 am § in The Ave Scene
A Real Debate About Seattle’s Housing Crisis
We Can’t Solve 21st Century Housing Problems with Failed 20th Century Strategies Last week, three city council members—frequent allies Nick Licata and Mike O’Brien, along with their less-likely comrade Tim Burgess, who’s facing two… THECISFORCRANK.COM Sarajane Siegfr[...]
June 4th, 2015 - 10:26 am § in Misc.
Will Monday’s debate address Seattle’s Apartheid?
Next Monday night there will be another debate among the candidates for City Council for Seattle’s District 3. I hope the debate will be a good time to discuss the issue of apartheid … not in Gaza or Soweto, but in Seattle. Here in Seattle, apartheid is politely called “ge[...]
June 2nd, 2015 - 6:05 pm § in The Ave Scene
District 3: The REAL Issues
Is it possible to discuss the real District 3 issues in the election for a city council member for District 3? Over at Facebook there is a group for District 3. When I posted there about the problem created by Sawantism .. her use of crowds to block discussion nf real issues … I was [&hell[...]
UW Architecture Prof Blames Corporations For Housing Problem
Responding to a post at the AAUP listserv: Sharon E. Sutton Professor, Department of Architecture was distressed about the NY Times report that claims to show long term poverty may be addressed by people moving to certain cities .. including Seattle. Her key comments were: That this, and other stu[...]
CHINA: A Communist Approach to Affordable Housing In a Capitalist Real Estate Market
While Seattle approaches its housing issue by building dormitories s for workers podments, — Last year Beijing made nearly 1,880 affordable commercial apartments available to buyers, rekindling average income-earners’ hopes of having a house of their own. BEIJING, June 23 2014 (Xinhu[...]
March 24th, 2015 - 1:51 am § in America, The Ave Scene
Seattle’s Wealth vs Poor: The GUARDIAN
The Guardian Writes About Seattle: Many business owners, (the Seattle entrepreneur) said, have an “econo-erotic fantasy”, imagining that even if they aren’t paying their employees enough to buy goods and services from other firms, those firms are. ” The Guardian’s Alastair Gee describ[...]
January 9th, 2015 - 1:42 am § in The Ave Scene
The Seattle 15?
Seattle Met Chooses Seattle Up and Coming Leaders Seattle Met is one of those glossy urban magazines one finds in hotel rooms and on the coffee tables of affluent friends. The Met is also an interesting magazine because it has reached out to one the few remaining political reporters in Seattle,[...]
Podments Are a Bad Idea
As Amazon Spreads Podments in Seattle, New York already deals with podment neurosis: increased claustrophobia, domestic abuse, and alcoholism. (abridged and commented from NY Observer) Even though Mayor Michael Bloomberg has championed the micro-unit, some experts are concerned that living in 25[...]