2/20/20 | TreeHugger ~ About Green Architecture ~ As a winner of the 2018 Wood Innovation Grant from the U.S. Forest Service, Generate has been developing a catalog of tech-enabled and replicable kit-of-parts building solutions which utilize mass timber—a sustainable engineered wood product—to address the region’s twin pressures of increased urban density and carbon footprint […]
Affordable Housing and the Failure of Central Planning
2/13/20 | Cle Elum | Central Washington Sentinel | by Bruce Coe~~ Recently we’ve heard the usual campaign trail accusations about, well, just about everything. But a couple of them caught our eye, and both of the comments are typical of the kind of polarized demonization that occurs when the unenlightened meet the uninformed. Two […]
HUD looks to eliminate regulatory barriers to affordable housing
And publishes a request for information~~ President Trump’s longest-reigning appointee speaks up; “Owning a home is an essential component of the American Dream,” HUD Secretary Ben Carson said. “It is imperative that we remove regulatory barriers that prevent that dream from becoming a reality.” The Department of Housing and Urban Development published a request for […]
Establishing a White House Council on Eliminating Regulatory Barriers to Affordable Housing
A Presidential Document by the Executive Office of the President on 06/28/2019~~~ Executive Order 13878 of June 25, 2019~~~ By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Purpose. For many Americans, access to affordable housing […]
Kittitas County; This should really scare you…
11/6/17 | Cle Elum | Central Washington Sentinel by Bruce Coe~ This is NOT what should scare you… The fact that a multinational builder and developer like Sun Communities (Bull Frog Flats) has moved in right next to another multinational land developer and is now developing another huge project. Not the fact that REITS (Real […]