Seattle for Growth is a partnership promoting more housing, of all types, in every neighborhood, and for all levels of income.
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Roger Valdez, director of the Center for Housing Economics, state legislators and other housing organizations have partnered to support a project that will renovate and rehabilitate a more-than-60-year-old apartment complex in the International District. abqjournal.com/business/arti…
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Seattle voters will decide this February how to pay for the social housing developer they approved in 2023. Learn more on City Inside/Out with @callananseattle and remember to vote by Feb. 11! Watch: youtu.be/3TY_8AUDR9E @houseRneighbors @SeattleChamber @Seattle4Growth
Someone has to say this: Pouring money on the “housing crisis” isn’t working. 1. End zoning, 2. Allow market to perform, 3. Where it fails, subsidize with cash payments to renters, 4. Build housing for those with deepest needs. Vote “No!”
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Someone wrote the story of my life in the housing world: “a dumb recurring fight.” 🤨 theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…
I’m looking forward to having the distinction between “natural” and “artificial” price increases adjudicated. Perhaps we’re moving toward “organic” prices? Maybe “non-GMO” prices? “Line caught?” 🤔😂king5.com/article/news/local…
We would love more dialogue on this @nhpfoundation
#TheImprovementAct per @Seattle4Growth via @Forbes Allow more local control but tie it to reductions in overreaching regulation that makes housing hard to build in the first place bit.ly/3RPtr6k Learn more @ #NHPF Symposium Oct. 19. bit.ly/3Rsv364
Enthusiasm for imaginary wins means we won't get real ones. The answer is to end zoning, allow producers to meet demand, subsidize with cash for rent, and concentrate the rest on those with the greatest needs.
Something New: Everything Urban seattleforgrowth.org/somethi…
Good discussion on @SeattleChannel about this new proposal. Let's find out the answer to "Where did all the money go?" We've been told money is the answer, why isn't it working?
A petition calling for social housing may lead to ballot measure for Seattle voters. If approved, I-135 would aim to create publicly-owned, permanently affordable housing. But not all agree measure is needed. WATCH: youtu.be/oEz_6cHq8D8
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Up In Smoke: Seattle Favors Money Supply Over Housing Supply seattleforgrowth.org/up-in-s…
Laocoon alert. I warned design review was a problem years ago. So is zoning. Abolish them both.
It's always weird to see my views, like advocating to abolish design review in Seattle suddenly adopted by the armchair quarterbacks. You can see on slide 18 I've long suggested its end (2019) slideshare.net/TheRogerValde…
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Lots of attention today on how courts change laws. It’s time to shift the way the law looks at private property and rental housing. forbes.com/sites/rogervaldez…
When it comes to the non-profit housing industrial complex, I’ve always resisted using the word “corruption.” This story uses it. @evergreenstone as me about the time @ChoppRep said he was NOT the Grand Poobah of non-profit housing. seattletimes.com/seattle-new…
@evergreenstone ask @ChoppRep and the @washdems how they justify pouring cash on projects in Seattle that are grossly inefficient while the hardest working people in the state sleep in their cars. forbes.com/sites/rogervaldez…
And @evergreenstone your paper has failed completely to cover this “corruption” until now. Get curious. This is the tip of the iceberg. Look at the project a Magnuson Park. Keep digging. The boondoggle of “affordable housing” hurts the poor. mynorthwest.com/830807/compl…