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Zillow says there are 100 listings for detached single-family homes in the entire City of Seattle priced at or below $850,000. 100. In a city of 737,000 people.
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Only 44 of those listings at or below $850k have two or more bedrooms. And when you drill down to three or more bedrooms, there are only 26 listings.
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The Seattle Times publisher and his lackeys may not care to be honest, but housing stock matters and a lack of it ensures that people are pushed out and made homeless. But that is Horsey and Blethen’s agenda.
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Seattle Times Wrong Again, Siding with Exclusion and Housing Scarcity
The Seattle Times editorial board has long been a foe of housing diversity and density, and they proved that yet again yesterday. The editorial board, which represents the state’s largest new…
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The number of bad take op-eds that Frank Blethen has had written this week in order to block HB 1782 really hints at how fearful he is that it might get passed. Make Frank mad and support passage of HB 1782: actionnetwork.org/letters/lets-m
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Just breathtaking the hand waving away going on in this Seattle Times columnist’s piece that boils down to “sorry housing is expensive, but stick to urban villages, ya rats!” seattletimes.com/opinion/editor
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Throwing out 30 years of housing policy is ill-advised. Urban villages must remain the centerpiece of the city’s growth strategy. Despite the challenges, thoughtful, concentrated development is the best way to build the kind of city that meets affordability, climate and livability goals. The great majority of Seattle households live in apartments and houses developed by the private sector with prices and rents set by the market. Those costs can be eye-popping.”
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Not only are the derivates of this cartoon 💯, but this is true. Frank Blethen and his Times companions are freaking out at the notion that they might end up sharing their communities with a few more people. #Homes4WA
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Matt Hutchins
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One can measure just how good HB 1782 is by the frequency of weak sauce editorial that have popped in last 2 weeks. Even horsey was mobilized (this isn’t horsey’s take but you can imagine)
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