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hey, don't you write on Seattle housing periodically? Or is that someone else with a similar name?
by pnathan 10y ago
hey, don't you write on Seattle housing periodically? Or is that someone else with a similar name?
- jseliger 10y agoYeah, but not for a specific media site. I'm more familiar than usual with housing issues in part from simple intellectual curiosity but also because I primarily do grant writing for nonprofit and public agencies (see http://www.seliger.com/blog http://www.seliger.com/blog if you're curious), which means I've worked on lots of band-aid housing projects (e.g. HUD 811, 202, some Section 8, etc.). It is somewhat dispiriting to work on all these projects when the biggest challenges in many cities are not subsidies but being able to build enough housing in the first place. Housing is a solved issue in technology terms, as steel-framed buildings and elevators are quite old; the problems are entirely political and legal (see e.g. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/023562e2-54a6-11e6-befd-2fc0c26b3c60.html http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/023562e2-54a6-11e6-befd-2fc0c26b3c...).