Just a year after buying her home in the rapidly gentrifying Leschi neighborhood, Kshama Sawant, our City Councilor, has made $200,000! According to Zillow, Sawant’s $345,000 house is now worth $547,000. This is great news for Dr. Sawant. Even as a Ph.D. economist in rural Indian economics, o[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Housing Market’
June 16th, 2015 - 8:05 am § in Misc.
While Sawant is Taking on Shell, Boeing, and the Democrats, Her District Is in Trouble
Heather Staples (Quinn’s Bar and Grill) said that some stakeholders were considering an appeal to the Seattle City Council, although she says she’s not sure to whom exactly. “People don’t hear us in City Hall,” she says. from Crosscut: In the upstairs of Quinn’s pub on the corner o[...]
June 16th, 2015 - 5:40 am § in Misc.
Seattle Housing: How to pay for lowering the cost of living here?
FACEBOOK: Sarajane Siegfriedt “(Mayor Murry’s Housing Affordability Committee) has agreed on a list of 60 affordability and livability strategies, but with two weeks to go they haven’t figured out financing. Linkage fees look as though they will fly, but how high? City-backed bo[...]
June 14th, 2015 - 11:37 pm § in Misc.
Is the homeless problem soluble?
While the Sawantistas are touting recreating the failed housing projects of the 50s, people actually working on the problem seem to be making headway. Chronic homelessness has declined by 10 percent over the past five years, and veteran homelessness has dropped by a third in the same time period, [...]
June 14th, 2015 - 10:49 am § in Misc.
FACEBOOK: Debating Housing
Sarajane Siegfriedt 1 hr · Edited · Explosive growth and explosive rents should blow out of the water the urbanists Dan Bertolet and Roger Valdez who claim what rents will become “affordable” if we just remove height limits in our most dense neighborhoods and upzone our SF neighborhood[...]
June 8th, 2015 - 12:28 pm § in Misc.
Seattle Housing Crisis: A Proposed Answer
Last week I released my proposal to increase the supply of homes in Seattle using a strategy of inclusionary up-zoning–with special attention to affordable housing for people earning the minimum wage. Increasing supply takes time and will not happen overnight. My new proposal for a voucher program[...]
June 6th, 2015 - 8:31 am § in The Ave Scene
Whom would YOU Choose to Replace a Mural in Seattle’s Historic “Africatown”
This painted out wall once held a fine mural depicting soe of the history of Seattle’s African American Community. Then it was gone. A new mural is being painted nearby by a successful artists, Emily Charlotte Taibleson. I hope and assume she will do a great job, but I am sad that with all the[...]
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[...]