Greater Seattle home costs soared at 11.3 percent, the fastest pace in three years, the fastest in the US. The region has taken the top spot in the national rankings in every month since September, and price growth has only been speeding up as of late . Portland was behind, again, with home pr[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Seattle’
March 29th, 2017 - 1:01 am § in Misc.
Why is North Seattle Attractive to Encampments?
Encampment Complaints: A suspicious pattern March 23, 2017 The document in the link below was produced by Seattle’s Customer Service Bureau (CSB) in response to a public disclosure request from Safe Seattle. The document shows how many citizen complaints the City got in a six-week time period. The[...]
March 11th, 2017 - 9:16 am § in The Ave Scene
Seattle Antisemitism
Tracy Rector FACEBOOK This was left on my son’s school today which is part of Temple De Hirsch Sinai. It breaks my heart that the students, especially the middle schoolers, had to face this hatred in what’s supposed to be a safe space. FYI, in the last 50 days since the Dictator and hi[...]
March 5th, 2017 - 1:50 am § in The Ave Scene
PAYING for a levy is lots harder than VOTING for it.
Senate votes to revamp Sound Transit board amid angst over taxes. It’s ‘only a start,’ leader says State senators want to overhaul how Sound Transit does business, starting with… THENEWSTRIBUNE.COM[...]
March 3rd, 2017 - 1:04 am § in The Ave Scene
Homeless in Seattle
David Preston . When we see homelessness, we tend to think of it as a static thing. We assume that the way we perceive a homeless person now is how they’ve always been. And always will be. In contrast to that, this short film elegantly expresses that homelessness is as variable as the people i[...]
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 21st, 2017 - 9:41 am § in The Ave Scene
GATES RULES
David Brewster Keeping up with the Gateses. A new survey finds there are now 2,473 billionaires in the world, led by Bill Gates ($89.3 billion) and Warren Buffett ($73.5 billion), with Jeff Bezos coming in at a not-shabby fourth place. Nine of the top 10 are in America; quite a few drop out of the [[...]
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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February 15th, 2017 - 1:59 am § in The Ave Scene
Seattle Real Estate As An Investment For Wealthy Chinese
When Anna Riley, a Seattle-area real-estate agent, held an open house for a new $2.3 million listing in the tony city of Bellevue late last month, the pool of prospective buyers was different from the usual assortment of tech magnates, sports stars and chief executives. Twenty groups of buyers visit[...]
February 12th, 2017 - 1:45 pm § in The Ave Scene
Harming Seattle’s Homeless
David Preston The ACLU is making good on an earlier threat and suing the City of Seattle and the WA State Department of Transportation to prevent them from removing homeless camps. People are being seriously abused in these camps, but for the ACLU and the ideologues on the City Council who suppo[...]