What you will not find in Seattle today is a single solution to its housing crisis, which, for the past 20 years of rapid capital growth, has expanded its population of homeless humans. The reason why ...
As Mayor Jenny Durkan pushes her plan to bring tiny home villages to Seattle, one activist is speaking up, claiming they’re more akin to “slave shacks” than proper homes to house our most vulnerable. ...
The standard policy response to slums — relocate people, bulldoze the settlement, and build public housing elsewhere — is older than the slums themselves. It has never worked. The logic seems ...
The history of public housing -- from overcrowded slums, unsanitary firetraps and crime-ridden "projects" to handsome buildings that lift neighborhood property values -- is also the history of how ...