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#904 - Seattle and Tacoma Were Among The 50 Most Competitive Rental Markets In The US In 2021
December 30, 2021 11:00 - 30 minutes - 21.6 MBSeattle and Tacoma were among the top 50 most competitive rental markets in 2021, according to an end-of-the-year report from RentCafe, a nationwide internet listing service. Tacoma cracked the top 10 as the eighth most competitive rental market this year. Vacant apartments stayed on the market for an average of 23 days, the report said, and for every vacant apartment, there was an average of 24 prospective renters. Seattle’s rental market last year was a bit cooler than Tacoma’s. Vacant...
#903 - Portland’s Plan To Use Traffic Barrels To Curb Gun Violence Isn’t Working
December 29, 2021 11:00 - 19 minutes - 13.7 MBThe city of Portland’s most visible response to gun violence, the installation of traffic barrels in a neighborhood plagued by shootings, isn’t working, data suggests. 911 dispatchers have received a greater number of calls about shootings in the area since the orange barrels were put in place. In October, city commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty ordered the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) to install traffic-calming devices across a six-block area in the Mt. Scott-Arleta neighborhood. H...
#902 - Boeing Suspends Vaccine Mandate For Employees But Encourages Vaccination
December 28, 2021 11:00 - 21 minutes - 15.4 MBBoeing has suspended its employee vaccine mandate. The company told employees in October they needed to get the COVID-19 vaccine or face being fired. However, Boeing told KOMO News it has since postponed the mandate. “Boeing is committed to maintaining a safe working environment for our employees, and advancing the health and safety of our global workforce,” a Boeing spokesperson said. “As such, we continue to encourage our employees to get vaccinated and get a booster if they have not do...
#901 - San Francisco Mayor Declares State of Emergency to Combat Overdose Deaths & Crime
December 27, 2021 12:00 - 24 minutes - 17.5 MBThe mayor of San Francisco on Friday declared a state of emergency in the Tenderloin in an effort to bring down overdose deaths and violent crime in one of the city’s poorest and most drug-infested neighborhoods. Mayor London Breed said at a news conference attended by the police chief and other public health personnel that rapid drug intervention is needed because about two people a day are dying of overdoses, mostly from fentanyl, in the Tenderloin and the city’s South of Market neighborh...
#900 - Biden Administration Reverses Trump Rule Allowing More Powerful Shower Heads
December 27, 2021 11:00 - 15 minutes - 11.2 MBThe Energy Department on Tuesday announced a rollback of a Trump-era rule that had loosened restrictions on water flow in showerheads. The new rule restores 2013 regulations on how much water can be carried through showerheads. Under the earlier rule, the entire shower was considered under rules restricting flow to 2.5 gallons per minute. The Trump revision changed the definition of “showerhead” to every nozzle in a single product, meaning a single shower fixture could carry two or three ti...
#899 - 1,140 Cars Were Stolen Across Portland In November 2021! The Highest Monthly Total Since 2015!
December 23, 2021 11:00 - 38 minutes - 27 MBAt 7:57 am on Thanksgiving morning, I parked my green 2011 Subaru Outback on the northern flank of Mount Tabor and went for a stair run. I left my wallet in the glove compartment and my laptop in my backpack on the back seat. It never occurred to me that they might be imperiled. After all, the houses on the block where I parked are each valued at close to a million dollars. At 9:15, I walked the block and a half back to where I had parked my car. It wasn’t there. 1 I circled the block, s...
#898 - King County Council approves land swap to take over Seattle City Hall Park
December 22, 2021 12:00 - 20 minutes - 14.5 MBThe Metropolitan King County Council on Tuesday voted to acquire City Hall Park from the city of Seattle, the first step in an uncertain plan to address crime and homelessness in the downtown park. At the same time, the County Council rejected an amendment that would guarantee the park remains a park in perpetuity, fueling concerns that it could be subject to some sort of redevelopment. The legislation grants the county’s approval to a land swap, arranged by Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan and ...
#897 - Tacoma Considers Allowing Electric Fences Dues to Stolen Catalytic Converters
December 22, 2021 11:00 - 33 minutes - 23.4 MBAfter eight catalytic converters were stolen from vehicles in their parking lot in recent months, the owners of Aqua Rec’s in Tacoma had enough. They filed a permit with the city of Tacoma to put up an electric fence around their property off Puyallup Avenue. “We didn’t really entertain it seriously until about a month ago because we’ve had multiple break-ins on our employees,” said Josh Shamp, co-owner of Aqua Rec’s, a pool, spa and fireplace service company that’s been at the location fo...
#896 - Washington Governor Jay Inslee Proposes $800 Million for Homelessness in 2022
December 21, 2021 12:00 - 28 minutes - 20.5 MBStanding between two Seattle affordable housing buildings on a gravel lot, Gov. Jay Inslee proposed Wednesday spending $815 million in 2022 to create more permanent and transitional housing throughout the state, offer financial support to keep more people in their homes and expand supportive services for behavioral health needs, in what he called "the biggest and boldest" effort to reduce Washington's homelessness crisis. He also promoted a bill to increase housing density in large and smal...
#895 - Rate at Which People Stopped Moving to California Surprised Researchers: 'Statewide Phenomenon'
December 21, 2021 11:00 - 24 minutes - 17.5 MBThe number of people moving to California has significantly dropped since the pandemic started last year, while the number of people fleeing the state continues to rise, according to a new study. "I guess I was a little bit surprised to see that entrances had fallen so much. It wasn't so much that we saw it in a particular area. For me, the surprise was that this was a statewide phenomenon," co-author of the study from California Police Lab, Evan White, told KCRA. The study found a 38% de...
#894 - Bank of America sues Hardesty over credit card debt
December 20, 2021 12:00 - 30 minutes - 21.4 MBBank of America is suing Portland City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty over credit card debt. Court documents show the bank is seeking more than $16,000 from Hardesty. The bank claims two credit card accounts in her name are in default. Hardesty sent a statement to KATU News. “When I ran for City Council in 2018, like many working people I was reliant on a credit card and built up debt,” she wrote. “I live alone, without help, and put all of myself into my work at the City. “Sometimes that ...
#893 - Robbery Suspect Spotted Changing Stolen Tires, Fails to Escape in Jacked Up Car
December 20, 2021 11:00 - 21 minutes - 15.2 MBBellevue police arrested a man accused of stealing tires from a dealership and attempting to flee from police with his own car still on jacks, according to Bellevue police. A 23-year-old man was arrested Tuesday morning after police responded to a report of theft at a dealership lot. The man is accused of stealing tires off a black Dodge Challenger, then driving across the street and attempting to put the tires on his own red Dodge Challenger. When police arrived, the man dove into his ca...
#892 - San Francisco Mayor Calls for ‘Aggressive’ Policing to End ‘Reign of Criminals’ in City
December 19, 2021 11:00 - 22 minutes - 16.3 MBSan Francisco mayor London Breed called for more “aggressive” policing in the city on Tuesday to combat smash-and-grab robberies and other crime, over a year after proposing budget cuts to the police department amid a nationwide movement to defund police. “It’s time the reign of criminals who are destroying our city, it is time for it to come to an end,” Breed said at a press conference at City Hall. “And it comes to an end when we take the steps to be more aggressive with law enforcement. ...
#891 - Neighborhood Crime Data Doesn’t Belong on Real Estate Sites According To Redfin
December 18, 2021 11:00 - 25 minutes - 18.5 MBWe recently decided not to add neighborhood crime data to Redfin.com. We were considering this because we’re very much focused on answering all the questions people have when they’re considering a home purchase, and we know that one of these questions is whether they’ll feel safe in a given home or neighborhood. But the data available don’t allow us to speak accurately to that question, and given the long history of redlining and racist housing covenants in the United States there’s too grea...
#890 - Seattle police ‘Unavailable’ list grows, city an emergency event away from catastrophe
December 17, 2021 12:00 - 31 minutes - 22.1 MBThe Seattle Police Department staffing emergency continues. The city is one emergency event away from a serious catastrophe. But leaders and the media remain mostly silent. The so-called “HR Unavailable” list has grown considerably as of Dec. 10. This list features officers who are on extended leave and cannot be deployed. Officers only appear on the list after being absent for a minimum of 14 days. Concurrently, the department continues to struggle to fill vacant patrol slots to meet mini...
#889 - City Of Seattle Launches ‘Seattle Restored’ To Activate Vacant Storefronts Downtown
December 17, 2021 11:00 - 31 minutes - 22.5 MBThe City of Seattle Office of Economic Development (OED) and Mayor Jenny A. Durkan announced the launch of Seattle Restored—a new program focused on activating vacant commercial storefronts in Downtown Seattle neighborhoods such as Westlake, Belltown, Pioneer Square, and Chinatown-International District (CID). OED is partnering with Seattle Good Business Network, Shunpike , and real estate broker Susanna Tran to match vacant downtown Seattle storefronts with small business owners and artist...
#888 - Store Owner Rips Chicago Leaders After Smash-and-Grab at Car Dealership
December 16, 2021 12:00 - 24 minutes - 17.1 MBAfter his Chicago car dealership was robbed on Saturday, the owner of the business called on city leaders to do more to address crime. During the incident on Saturday, two men walked into the dealership, Gold Coast Exotic Motor Cars, with one standing guard at the door, and the other using a hammer to break open display cases, ABC 7 reported. Employees said that the men made off with seven luxury watches. The value of the stolen merchandise was $2 million, and the robbery occurred while th...
#887 - Americans' Inflation Expectations Soar to New High as Consumer Prices Surge
December 16, 2021 11:00 - 24 minutes - 17.7 MBAmericans' inflation fears accelerated again in November, climbing for the 13th consecutive month to a new record high, according to a key Federal Reserve Bank of New York survey published Monday. The median expectation is that the inflation rate will be up 6% one year from now, the highest level for the gauge since its launch in June 2013, according to the New York Federal Reserve's Survey of Consumer Expectations. Inflation expectations over the next three years fell slightly to a median ...
#886 - Long Island Mortgage Deadbeat Finally Booted After 23 Years
December 15, 2021 12:00 - 31 minutes - 22.1 MBThe free ride is finally over for a Long Island man who went more than two decades without paying a penny on his mortgage — while courts failed to evict him. Guramrit Hanspal, 52, bought the three-bedroom, 2.5-bath East Meadow home in October 1998 for $290,000, with $58,000 down. He made the first mortgage payment of $1,602.37, and then never paid again. The house was foreclosed upon in 2000. Over the years, Hanspal filed four lawsuits and seven bankruptcies, cases which automatically pau...
#885 - Seattle & Olympia Conduct Three Major Sweeps of Homeless Camps
December 15, 2021 11:00 - 23 minutes - 16.5 MBThe last 48 hours in Seattle and Olympia will have produced three significant sweeps of long-term, un-sanctioned and patently illegal homeless camps. There's something unspoken about cities like Seattle and Olympia that manage to enable homelessness instead of preventing it: the clean-up costs. With the existing policies, the cost falls to the taxpayers. If a business piled up trash, failed to pay for garbage collection and chronically left refuse all around the property, the cities of Olym...
#884 - Senate Votes to Block Biden's Vaccine Mandate For Large Private Businesses
December 14, 2021 12:00 - 26 minutes - 18.6 MBThe Senate voted Wednesday to block President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate on private employers in the latest blow to his push to flex federal power to boost vaccinations in the U.S. The measure to block the mandate heads to the Democratic-held House. It faces a tougher path to passage in the House, and the Biden administration has threatened a veto if it reaches the president’s desk. Because the mandate itself has a slim chance of becoming law, the measure to overturn it will have little p...
#883 - The Number of Active Housing Listings Hit An All Time Low During The Last Week of November
December 14, 2021 11:00 - 25 minutes - 18.2 MBIt’s official – housing inventory in America is at a crisis level. The number of active listings hit an all-time low during the week ending November 28, according to a Redfin report published on Wednesday. During the four week period ending November 28, the number of active listings was a 23% decrease compared to the same time period in 2020 and a 42% drop compared to 2019. The number of new listings was also down compared to 2020, dropping 4%, but it was 12% higher than the number of new l...
#882 - Better.com CEO Vishal Garg Apologizes For Firing 900 Employees Over Zoom
December 13, 2021 12:00 - 21 minutes - 15.5 MBVishal Garg, the CEO of mortgage company Better.com who was recently criticized after he reportedly informed roughly 900 employees of their termination over a Zoom call, has apologized for failing to show them "the appropriate amount of respect and appreciation." "I want to apologize for the way I handled the layoffs last week," Garg wrote in a letter posted on the company’s website. "I failed to show the appropriate amount of respect and appreciation for the individuals who were affected ...
#881 - Judge Issues Nationwide Injunction Against Biden's Vaccination Mandate for Federal Contractors
December 13, 2021 11:00 - 18 minutes - 13.3 MBA federal judge on Tuesday issued a nationwide injunction against a vaccine mandate for federal contractors, ruling that President Joe Biden probably exceeded his authority by imposing the requirement. Judge R. Stan Baker, who's based in Georgia, temporarily blocked implementation of the administration after a lawsuit from numerous states and a trade group argued that letting the mandate take effect on Jan. 4 would cause "irreparable injury" to workers who could be forced out of their jobs....
#880 - Biden's Treasury Dept Takes Aim at Trump & Putin With Money Laundering
December 12, 2021 11:00 - 22 minutes - 16.3 MBThe Biden administration is set to crack down on all-cash deals in the housing market, a type of transaction beloved by former President Donald Trump and many Russian oligarchs close to President Vladimir Putin. The effort aims to stamp out money laundering and other illicit activity, the Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network said in a Monday statement. Specifically, the administration wants buyers in all-cash purchases worth at least $300,000 to disclose more informa...
#879 - Zillow Thought Flipping Houses Meant Easy Money But a North Portland Home Shows the Downside
December 11, 2021 11:00 - 33 minutes - 23.5 MBA house on North Russet Street in the Piedmont neighborhood sold in late June for top dollar. The three-bedroom, 2,652-square-foot single-family home, with a brick fireplace and detached garage, sold for $661,600. Two months later, the owner put it back on the market. But it hasn’t sold, and the house is still empty. Now neighbors say it is attracting squatters. It was Zillow, a publicly traded online realty company, not a conventional homebuyer, who purchased the Russet Street house on Ju...
#878 - Fury in New York City as Mayor de Blasio Gives Firms 3 Weeks to Get Vaccinations
December 10, 2021 12:00 - 29 minutes - 20.7 MBMayor Bill de Blasio sprang a COVID-19 vaccine mandate on all private businesses in New York City on Monday — drawing immediate rebuke from trade groups, New York office workers and some fellow elected officials who said the backbone of the Big Apple was “blindsided” by the stunning move. De Blasio, whose mayoralty ends at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve, labeled making vaccines compulsory for private businesses a “pre-emptive strike” against an expected surge in COVID infections t...
#877 - San Francisco Crime Surge Prompts City to Suspend Cannabis Tax to Help Dispensaries vs. Dealers
December 10, 2021 11:00 - 24 minutes - 17.4 MBCity supervisors in San Francisco unanimously approved an ordinance suspending the city's business tax on cannabis retailers last week. San Francisco Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, who penned the ordinance, said in a statement to the San Francisco Examiner that the suspension is intended to help out legal cannabis retailers who are trying to compete with illegal drug dealers and a spike in theft. The tax, which imposes a 1% to 5% citywide tax on gross receipts from cannabis businesses, was a...
#876 - Thousands Could Soon Lose Or Sell Their Homes as Covid Mortgage Bailouts Expire
December 09, 2021 12:00 - 27 minutes - 19.6 MBHundreds of thousands of homeowners could soon lose or sell their homes as Covid-related mortgage bailout programs expire. The federal government, big banks and mortgage servicers started emergency programs when the pandemic hit early last year, shutting down vast swaths of the economy. The bailouts allowed millions of homeowners to miss payments, some for up to 18 months. “We’re in the midst of the largest transition out of forbearance we’re likely to see, with three-quarters of a million...
#875 - San Francisco Restaurant That Kicked Out Police Says They May Do it Again
December 09, 2021 11:00 - 18 minutes - 13.1 MBThe owners of a San Francisco restaurant are now apologizing after denying service to three uniformed police officers who were on-duty. Hilda and Jesse initially denied service to the three San Francisco Police Department officers on Friday after they were seated at the restaurant. According to ABC7 News, one of the owners said that the on-duty police officers' "presence" made staff at the restaurant feel "uncomfortable." "It's not about the fact that we are anti-police," co-owner of Hil...
#874 - Over 12 Million People Are Either Long-Term Unemployed Seeking Work or Working Part Time
December 08, 2021 12:00 - 23 minutes - 16.6 MBWhile the latest numbers on the state of jobs in the US showed that the US was still creeping toward recovery, one thing remained consistent: The economy isn't working for millions of workers. Even with the Delta wave easing, the number of jobs added in November was a big miss compared with expectations. On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said just 210,000 nonfarm payrolls were added in November — a far cry from the 550,000 that economists surveyed by Bloomberg forecast. Last month,...
#873 - Boise is Now the Least Affordable Housing Market in the United States
December 08, 2021 11:00 - 28 minutes - 19.9 MBToronto headlines and news articles declared their city was no longer the second least affordable place across the United States and Canada. The Canadian city was “beat out,” said the Daily Hive, by “one unexpected US city: Boise, Idaho.” Boise is officially the second least affordable housing market on the continent. When it comes to housing, only Vancouver, B.C., is worse for home buyers, according to a new study from Oxford Economics, an economic forecasting company in England. To deter...
#872 - Report on Seattle Mayor’s Missing Texts Still Hasn’t Shown Up As She Prepares to Exit City Hall
December 07, 2021 12:00 - 24 minutes - 17.3 MBA long-awaited forensic report on Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan’s missing text messages from a key period during last year’s turbulent racial justice protests has yet to materialize as Durkan prepares to leave office this month — and officials aren’t saying when it will. It’s been over a year since the city attorney’s office hired a private contractor to analyze the matter and more than five months since the office initially said it aimed to share the contractor’s completed report. The contra...
#871 - Repeat Break-Ins Frustrate Seattle Business Who Now Seek Extra Protection
December 07, 2021 11:00 - 26 minutes - 18.6 MBA local business owner says the city is "out of control" and overrun with what he calls "unchecked crime." "I think the word on the street is there are not enough officers out there to be able to do their job," Steele Barber owner Matthew Humphrey told us. "And they’re not prosecuting them. So, most of them think it’s just free reign on the city." Humphrey’s barbershop in Seattle’s Ravenna/ Roosevelt neighborhood was recently the target of a smash and grab burglary and it's not the first t...
#870 - The Sudden and Troubling Rise of a Private Police Force in Downtown Portland
December 06, 2021 12:00 - 45 minutes - 32.2 MBThis past August, John DiLorenzo, one of Portland’s most prominent attorneys, decided he wanted something done about the homeless encampment on Southwest 12th Avenue and Southwest Taylor Street. The historic apartment building he co-owns, The Gentry, was just across the street. DiLorenzo said his tenants had complained about gunshots and drug deals at the camp all summer long. So had nearby property and business owners, who were filing a deluge of complaints to any city official they could...
#869 - Interest in Kshama Sawant recall election high, according to early ballot returns
December 06, 2021 11:00 - 22 minutes - 16.3 MBIf Seattle Councilmember Kshama Sawant is recalled, it won't be without one of the most expensive votes in civic history, or without a street fight. On Wednesday, numerous supporters were dotted across Capitol Hill in pop-up tents printing out ballots for the single-issue election on Dec. 7. It wasn't some sort of secret operation, as the tents all advertised the fact that they were there for the process, with Sawant supporters pulling up information to cross-reference registration status. ...
#868 - Fremont Brewing is Still Using Concrete "Eco Blocks" To Prevent RV Parking
December 05, 2021 11:00 - 34 minutes - 24.3 MBAfter at least one formal complaint, the Seattle Department of Transportation has issued a warning—but no penalty—to Fremont Brewing, the company co-owned by city council member-elect Sara Nelson, for obstructing the public right-of-way around its Ballard brewing facility with massive concrete “ecology blocks.” As PubliCola reported last summer, eco blocks—so called because they are a byproduct of concrete production that uses waste that would otherwise occupy landfills—are an inexpensive w...
#867 - How Law Enforcement is Trying to Stop Mob Retail Thefts
December 04, 2021 11:00 - 27 minutes - 19.9 MBWith in-store customers expected to return in droves for the holiday shopping season, law enforcement agencies are moving to halt a wave of organized "smash-and-grab" crimes at retailers across the US. In Chicago, Los Angeles and other major cities, police departments are increasing patrols at retailers targeted by mobs of thieves in brazen raids. In Northern California, district attorneys formed an alliance to prosecute organized theft rings. At the federal level, the FBI said it is in "cl...
#866 - Staffing Crisis Impacting Response to 911 Calls in Seattle
December 03, 2021 12:00 - 31 minutes - 22.3 MBCalls for help are sometimes meeting long delays as the city’s 911 system finds itself understaffed and overwhelmed. It is a potentially critical collapse in Seattle's public safety net and it could be months before the problem is solved. Until then, a balancing act is underway to better prioritize emergency calls. For every call taker who fills a chair at Seattle’s Community Safety and Communications Center, there is an empty seat right next to the person. Chris Lombard, the department’s ...
#865 - "Lawnmower Man" Leaves Ballard Streets With Help From Non-Profit Group
December 03, 2021 11:00 - 24 minutes - 17.7 MBCharles Woodward is letting go of his past. And volunteers with "We Heart Seattle" are now trying to help him rebuild his future. “Piece by piece he kept saying you can take this,” says Andrea Suarez, the non-profit group’s founder. For the past two weekends, Suarez and her crew removed thousands of pounds of wood and scrap metal from his encampment. Including all the lawn mowers that once occupied the corner of 8th avenue NW and 49th street. This is why neighbors gave him the nickname “la...
#864 - Kshama Sawant recall election is a high-stakes moment for Seattle on December 7th
December 02, 2021 12:00 - 34 minutes - 24.2 MBThe proposed recall of City Councilmember Kshama Sawant is based on charges related to particular actions last year, and only voters in her central Seattle district are deciding whether she should be retained. But the Dec. 7 recall election could have sweeping consequences, beyond the allegations on the ballot and beyond District 3, because a case can be made that few figures have influenced the city’s politics as much in the past decade. Sawant’s scorching rhetoric and uncompromising appr...
#863 - Organized Retail Crime Wave ‘Traumatizing’ Employers & Making Staffing Difficult
December 02, 2021 11:00 - 27 minutes - 19.2 MBAmid a surge in organized shoplifting, Best Buy CEO Corie Barry has said that the crime wave is “traumatizing” employees and making hiring and keeping staff difficult. The retailer is not the only outlet targeted by criminals. Organized shoplifting has “increased dramatically” over the last two years, Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul warned in September. Raoul pointed to shocking figures from the retail industry – theft investigations were up 86% at Home Depot, shoplifting was up 30% ...
#862 - Police Officer Fired Over $25 Donation to Kyle Rittenhouse Demands Job Back After Verdict
December 01, 2021 11:00 - 26 minutes - 18.3 MBA Virginia police officer who was fired for sending a donation to Kyle Rittenhouse's defense is asking to have his job back now that the teen has been acquitted of murder charges Norfolk Lieutenant William Kelly was fired in April by city officials for donating $25 to fund the legal fees for Rittenhouse, who fatally shot two people and injured one during a protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in August 2020. Kelly was first placed on administrative duty before he was fired as his actions were be...
#861 - Ten luxury businesses targeted in San Francisco mass looting at Louis Vuitton
November 30, 2021 12:00 - 28 minutes - 19.8 MBSan Francisco officials have announced plans to deter robbers moving forward following the mass looting that ransacked Louis Vuitton Friday night. In the midst of busy holiday shopping, a group of roughly a dozen people flooded Union Square at around 8:10 p.m., smashing windows and grabbing armfuls of luxury clothing. Moving forward, city officials plan to impede vehicle access to Union Square. "Our garages will be open, our buses and our cable cars, will be able to circulate, but there w...
#860 - Ballard homeowner claims enforcement double standard in dispute with 'Lawnmower Man'
November 30, 2021 11:00 - 25 minutes - 17.9 MBArron Renfrew owns a charming two-story house in Ballard that he wants to rent out but it also comes with an ongoing issue involving Charles Woodward, known to residents in the Seattle neighborhood as Lawnmower Man. Woodward, who is homeless, has lined up over two dozen lawnmowers on the street, three cars and has other equipment on the intersection at 8th Avenue NW and 49th Street that has upset some area residents because of the noise and the mess. “He’s got several cars (and) all these ...
#859 - Sky High Home Prices May Push Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to Back Loans of Nearly $1 Million
November 29, 2021 12:00 - 27 minutes - 19.2 MBHome prices all over the country have seen stratospheric increases within the past year, as demand for homes spiked and inventory tanked. But higher prices are expected to push the limits of conforming loans to what experts anticipate may be record increases in 2022, with the maximum loan limit at nearly $1 million for high-cost areas. The expected increases were reported by the Wall Street Journal Tuesday, and industry publications have been forecasting the changes, too. Mortgages above t...
#858 - St. Paul Rent-Control Initiative Backfires, Unleashes ‘Chaos’ in Housing Market
November 29, 2021 11:00 - 31 minutes - 22.2 MBDemocratic leaders in Minnesota’s capital city are scrambling for solutions after developers put several large projects on hold across St. Paul in the wake of last week’s election, when residents approved what may be the strictest rent-control policy in the country. The rent-control ballot initiative in St. Paul was overshadowed nationally by an effort in neighboring Minneapolis to disband that city’s police force. But while the Minneapolis police initiative went down in flames, left-wing a...
#857 - Investors Scooped Up Record $64B in Homes Nationally in Third Quarter
November 28, 2021 11:00 - 38 minutes - 26.9 MBThe third quarter was investors' most prolific one on record, accounting for a full 18.2% of homes that sold across the U.S. https://www.bizjournals.com/bizjournals/news/2021/11/17/investors-record-home-purchases-national.html Support the show 🛍️ Merch - https://Store.ReasonableTV.com/ 🌟 Go PREMIUM with Reasonable+ for uncensored access to our entire content library: https://ReasonableTV.com/ 💬 JOIN our FREE Discord Community! Share stories, chat with fellow enthusiasts, and stay in the l...
#856 - Suburban Seattle Taxpayers On The Hook Amid City's 'Defund' Police Push
November 27, 2021 11:00 - 26 minutes - 18.3 MBA Seattle-area Republican pushing a new "Refund Police" initiative says suburban taxpayers have unfortunately been bearing the brunt of the far-left inner city's failed policies, as his $14.4 million push for the sheriff's office aims to offset measures tying police's hands when it comes to public safety. King County Council Vice Chairman Reagan Dunn introduced the measure Monday to allocate a portion of the 2021 mid-biennial supplemental budget to addressing "a funding deficit" restricting...
#855 - Ballard Residents Feud With Homeless 'Lawnmower Man' Over Noise & Sidewalk
November 26, 2021 12:00 - 21 minutes - 14.9 MBSome residents who live in the northwest part of Seattle's Ballard neighborhood have been engaged in a tense standoff recently with Charles Woodward, also known as Lawnmower Man, in a dispute that neighbors are threatening to take to court. The two sides are at odds because Woodward has lined up nearly two dozen lawnmowers at the corner of 8th Avenue NW and 49th Street, impeding access on the sidewalk for pedestrians. He also has three parked cars and two wooden sheds at the site. Woodward...