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What makes a house affordable or unaffordable?

Central Washington Sentinel | Sept 3, 2019 ~~~ There isn’t really any argument about what makes a house unaffordable. It’s not labor, permitting, hookups or building material costs. Those costs are fixed within the target cost of a house.  The real cost is the price of the land underneath the structure.  “The Dreaded California” recognizes […]

Eliminating Exclusionary Land Use Regulations Should Be the Civil Rights Issue of Our Time

Joint Center of Housing Studies | Harvard University | PDF ~~~ Evidence is accumulating that the multiple layers of exclusionary zoning and land use controls are a powerful contributor not just to higher housing costs, but also to declining rates of economic mobility and productivity growth, and to widening disparities in the wealth of white […]

Affordable housing kerfuffle between Tacoma, Pierce County appears to be resolved

Could This Impact Affordable Housing In Central Washington? ~~ At issue is a state law passed in April that allows cities and counties to keep a portion of state sales-and-use tax revenues to build affordable housing for 20 years. Qualifying local jurisdictions can keep up to .0146 percent of the state’s 6.5 percent sales tax […]

The Baby Boomers Ruined Everything

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July 1, 2019 | Re-posted from The Atlantic ~~ Despite the sensationalist title, The Atlantic’s Lyman Stone offers a great solution to solving some of today’s prominent issues – deregulate people and let them succeed…     From his closing paragraph:  “As dire as this all sounds, there is cause for hope. If the problem is too many […]

Is America Finally Waking Up to Its Government Created Housing Crisis?

June 16, 2019 | Re-posted from Reason Magazine ~~~ Mainstream media is starting to embrace the idea of deregulating housing construction. Will policymakers?  Read Post: More about affordable housing facts in Kittitas County Is housing policy having a libertarian moment? One could be mistaken for believing so after scanning the mainstream media’s coverage of the […]

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