Superior Court Strikes Down Seattle’s First-in-Time Renter Law
Yesterday King County Superior Court Judge Suzanne Parisien issued a ruling striking down the first-in-time law regulating rental properties within the city of Seattle....
Seattle Imposes One-Year Moratorium on Rental Housing Bidding Platforms
On Monday, the Seattle City Council voted to impose a one-year moratorium on rental housing bidding platforms. Landlords in the city had been using...
Activists Rally for Big Solutions to Seattle’s Housing Gap
Council Chambers were packed Tuesday evening as housing advocates rallied for solutions to Seattle's affordability crisis. The "Housing Gap" meeting called by Councilmember Teresa...
Seattle Will Provide Free Transit to All Public High School Students
All public high school students in Seattle will receive free transit passes under a plan to encourage transit ridership both in the immediate and...
Should Seattle Declare a Moratorium on Selling Off City-Owned Land?
When Mayor Jenny Durkan announced her "Building a Bridge to Housing for All" plan to sell a prime city-owned parcel at 1933 Minor Ave...
Are Transit Fare Violation Policies Fair?
Over the years, the issue of fare enforcement fairness has routinely been raised. In 2015, Metropolitan King County Councilmember Dave Upthegrove sponsored legislation to...
Nashville Contemplates $5.2 Billion Transit Package and Denser Future
People tend to think of country music rather than urbanism when they think of Nashville, but Tennessee's capital is plotting an urban transformation all...
The Crisis of Late Capitalism in Seattle
The early 1800’s were terrible times to be a British peasant. Parliament had been steadily granting landlords’ requests for enclosure since the 1500s, fencing...