I don’t have a very high opinion of The Evergreen State College, but a forum on the Olympia area’s “housing crisis” that was organized for a class and held last week actually sounds like it would have been an amusing spectacle. Seven panelists at a forum Thursday night agreed that there isn’t enough affordable housing…
Tag: government_meddling
Throw More Money at the Problem
Problem: Housing in the Seattle area is too expensive.Government solution: Artificially inflate the buyer pool by throwing millions in government loans at the problem. Seattle will soon stake low-income housing developers in the cutthroat bidding wars for building sites. The idea, which the City Council’s Housing, Human Services and Health Committee approved as a two-year…
Bubble Link Roundup
There have been a lot of real estate articles in the local dead tree outlets the last few days. It’s time for another link roundup before I get too far behind and forget to mention some of them. First up, it’s Mark Trahant of the P-I with yet another thoughtful, well-reasoned take on Seattle’s housing…
Bubble Link Roundup
Here are a few short quotes from some recent interesting articles (followed by some pithy one-liners) that I haven’t had the time to dedicate entire posts to: Slumping sales of lots could presage fewer new houses for region A key future indicator of the housing market is down sharply, but that could be a good…
Realtors & Government Team Up To Look Good
As effective as government is at addressing most issues, it only makes sense that once the real estate market finally starts to slow down, that’s when they decide it’s a good time to try to do something about unaffordable housing. Gov. Chris Gregoire and top legislative leaders on Tuesday authorized a study of ways to…