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Co-own and operate ravengrass.com Work on policy in the cannabis space. Used to design and build housing, probably will again soon. Have opinions about housing policy as a result.
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The internet could have been so much better than it ended up. The same things that suck about it are why housing doesn't work. No distributed modulation of bank money allocated to non market development. Fix that, fix both.

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I can't imagine coming away from the last few years with this as an assessment of the situation. You hope to write more on how we didn't do anything different and the lesson is we should never think clearly again?

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Back again, 8th year working on this. Cannabis farmers need a direct path to consumers for cannabis legalization to succeed. It's an essential component. If you're in Washington and want this policy please get in touch with your #waleg rep and let them know. app.leg.wa.gov/BillSummary/...

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Lobbying.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Washington progressive housing policy, allowing private landlords to raise rents on low income housing owned by private landlords and calling it an expansion of funding to the public housing supply. The disconnect between the description and summary is galling. #waleg

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Anyone know if the nlrb has anything in writing about what cannabis worker organizing they'll facilitate and which they won't?

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

Thinking about the distinction between use value and exchange value in housing is also relevant when talking about insurance and taxes. Non market alternatives extend into the ecosystem surrounding housing development and give us more tools for moments like these in California.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

There are thousands of institutions (private banks) that exist, in part, to modulate the supply of financial resources to market oriented firms to produce housing. There's not any institutions that do this for non market housing and the price of housing is too high as a result.

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

Chartered banks dominate money creation (that's what happens when they issue loans), and so most U.S. dollars are created in order to *make profits*--regardless of the means. By contrast direct federal spending (the other kind of money creation) is not profit-driven. Do the math.

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

If we created a federally backed facility, like the 30 year fixed, a 50 year fixed for multifamily social housing (bonus: add public banks to better allocate) We could build actually affordable housing for everyone without much public spending and no tax increases.

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment