Edward Alan Clark , Biobuddhist DOES SEATTLE’S TRADITION OF SINGLE FAMILY HOMES REFLECT RACISM? Page 25 of Seattle Mayor Ed Murray‘s Housing Affordability and Livability Agenda report cites the Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project’s research on racially restrictive coven[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Housing Market’
July 22nd, 2015 - 10:11 am § in Misc.
Median Rental Rate in San Fran $4,225
Is this a result of rent control?[...]
July 21st, 2015 - 5:56 pm § in Misc.
SEATTLE HOUSING .. a breakthough idea
Sarajane Siegfriedt Good news for affordable housing! More land will soon be available in Seattle, so we don’t have to tear down our most affordable older, SF homes. The City determined last year that we have at least three times the zoned capacity to meet the 20-year growth goals. (They’[...]
July 21st, 2015 - 5:35 pm § in The Ave Scene
The Faux Debate on Rent Control
The great debate over rent control turned out to be an amateurish production of the famous play “The Theater of the Absurd.” video The doors to Town Hall opened at 5 PM. By 6 PM the crowd overwhelmed the former church, extending out onto the sidewalk where I u[...]
July 20th, 2015 - 8:54 am § in The Ave Scene
Housing in Seattle
Sarajane Siegfriedt Single-family zones (in Seattle) are being accused of being “exclusionary,” implying that they are racially exclusive. As the article in Crosscut says, this is historically false. Of all the 15,000 or more multifamily units built or permitted recently, none–[...]
July 20th, 2015 - 7:14 am § in Misc.
Geov Parrish on the Seattle Election
GEOV.ORG Primary Election 2015: It Takes a Village Full of Candidates Two years ago, against the near-unified opposition of Seattle’s political establishment, an overwhelming two-thirds of Seattle voters approved a new, district-based composition for Seattle City Council: seven districts and two a[...]
July 19th, 2015 - 9:27 pm § in Misc.
Does Rent Control Work in Sweden?
Dr Peter Vella is an Australian scientific researcher living and working in Sweden. This article appeared in Crikey as a suggestion for his hime town of Sydney. Valkommen to Swedish Rent Control In 2014 I left Australia to work in Sweden – little did I know of the difficulties in finding an apa[...]
July 19th, 2015 - 10:19 am § in The Ave Scene
A Community Activist Explains His Support of HALA
Alan Durning, a member of the HALA Committee, has an OPED in today’s Seattle Times. Some quotes: “First, the purpose of changing single-family zoning is to welcome families who aren’t rich. It’s to enable the Travanas and Meaghans to live in these neighborhoods, too, renting[...]
July 18th, 2015 - 6:28 pm § in Misc.
Sawant and the mysterious “no address.”
Where does Sawant get her money? 61 % of her contributions comes either from “no address” or outside Seattle. Out of almost 1300 contributors, only 200 live in District 3![...]
July 18th, 2015 - 10:26 am § in The Ave Scene
An Architect From San Francisco Comments of the Unforseen Consequences of Seattle’s Housing Policy.
Maureen Bean Ui Lassig There is FAR more to the issue than just supplying additional dwelling units per acre. The situation here, in the SF Bay Area, is analogous to Seattle’s. We are hemmed in by the coastal hills on one side and the water on the other. All the economically feasible areas hav[...]