Donald Trump’s recent comments “could serve to nudge more passive supporters of discriminatory housing policy toward a ‘come to density’ moment,” Eric Levitz argues.
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Donald Trump’s recent comments “could serve to nudge more passive supporters of discriminatory housing policy toward a ‘come to density’ moment,” Eric Levitz argues.
Launch“To many inhabitants, San Francisco has become unrecognizable in a decade, as though it had gone on a cosmetic surgery bender,” writes Karen Heller.
Launch“In our own minds,” writes Knute Berger, “Seattle is a gleaming model of progressivism. But folks look at homelessness, housing prices, affordability, crime, taxes and traffic and, at the very least, have their doubts. They shake their heads, and some sneer: This is the progressive city on the hill?”
LaunchOso neighborhood never should have been built The Seattle Times has an in-depth article today about the neighborhood that was destroyed in the Oso mudslide
LaunchRisk of massive slide ‘unforeseen’? Warnings go back decades The Seattle Times connects with geologists who have long been concerned with the a catastrophic failure
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