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Seattle Times reporter covering housing and real estate. Formerly at San Jose Mercury News. Also tweeting on data analysis, sports and journalism.

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Joined May 2009
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    16 Nov 2017

    This 10-year-old reporter is my new hero

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  2. 52 minutes ago

    Saying a prayer for the journalists in Cincinnati just trying to get through their mentions today

    |￣￣￣￣￣￣ | | WE | | ARE NOT | | THE | | NATIONAL | | ENQUIRER | | ＿＿＿＿＿__| (\__/) || (•ㅅ•) || / 　 づ
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  3. 1 hour ago

    Not as eye-catching as the Bezos post but still important: The company at times essentially keeps tips intended for drivers by including it in heir base pay. That allows Amazon, led by the richest person in the world, to pay its drivers less

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  4. 2 hours ago

    "complexifier"

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  5. 3 hours ago

    Seattle-area home prices have fallen to their lowest point in two years. The median home is now $116,000 cheaper than it was when the market peaked last spring. Prices are down 16% in 8 months. The peak 8-month decline in the 2008 housing bust was 18%

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  6. 5 hours ago

    Across Washington, African Americans are being evicted about 5x more often than whites. Among women, it's 7x, per a UW study

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  7. 5 hours ago

    Seattle area since 2011 Home prices: up 96% Incomes: up 34%

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  8. Feb 6

    Portland spent $75M to help reverse gentrification in historically-black neighborhoods. It opened a 80-unit affordable housing building and got 1,500 applicants. It's been open for months and is somehow 70% empty

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  9. Feb 6

    When Seattle police use force against men, 31% of the time it's a black man. Against women, 22% of the time it's a black woman. African Americans make up 7% of the population

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  10. Feb 6

    While everyone was focused on other things in Virginia, the embattled governor quietly signed into law up to $750M in taxpayer incentives for Amazon. There was no press conference or public bill signing

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  11. Feb 5

    The Silicon Valley town of Cupertino, home to Apple, builds virtually no new housing and has a median home cost of $2.3M and rents at $3,200. So when the mayor jokes about putting a wall around the city, it's not much of a joke for non-rich people

    The new NIMBY mayor of Cupertino made an entirely tasteless joke about building a wall around Cupertino and then making San Jose pay for it in his State of the City address.
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  12. Feb 5

    A Washington sheriff was caught using a courtroom security camera to zoom in on the defense lawyer's papers and juror's notes. He was caught when a judge noticed the camera feed, which is normally stationary, was moving

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  13. Feb 5

    It's taken Seattle 11 years to approve 240 affordable housing units after lawsuits from a homeowner in the surrounding single-family neighborhood of Magnolia stalled plans

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  14. Feb 5

    that's a $35k stipend *per month* so a total annual stipend of $420,000 and total compensation of $2.4 million for McClatchy's CEO. For comparison the median U.S. reporter makes $39,370

    The McClatchy newspaper chain, which laid off 140 people last year and is offering buyouts to 450 people now, just gave its CEO a $1M bonus and $35k in "travel, housing, office, and security expenses" - on top of $1M in base pay
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  15. Feb 5

    The McClatchy newspaper chain, which laid off 140 people last year and is offering buyouts to 450 people now, just gave its CEO a $1M bonus and $35k in "travel, housing, office, and security expenses" - on top of $1M in base pay

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  16. Feb 5

    Have you looked to buy a home recently or considered it in the Seattle area? Looking to hear first-hand what it's like in the market right now. DM's are open and any help would be much appreciated - thanks!

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  17. Feb 5

    % of commuters who drive alone, by metro area NY: 50% SF: 57% DC: 66% Boston: 67% Seattle: 68% Chicago: 70% Portland: 70% Philly: 73% Denver: 75% LA: 75% ... most - Detroit: 84%

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  18. Feb 4

    Schultz has tweeted 12 times since launching the account a week ago and has been ratio'd all 12 times. This is like the Joe DiMaggio hit streak of twitter but the opposite

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    Howard Schultz says billionaires should be referred to as “people of means” or “people of wealth.”
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  19. Feb 4

    Seattle has more families making over $200k than under $50k. Hard to have a city with a broad range of people when the median rent takes up more than half of take-home pay for someone making under $50k

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  20. Feb 3

    America over the last 40 years •Incomes for the 1%: up 250% •GDP: up 80% •Incomes for middle class: up 50% If incomes had grown just at the rate of GDP, middle-class Americans would make $15,000 more than they do now, after taxes and benefits

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  21. Feb 3

    The median child care cost in the Bay Area is $1,800 a month, up 40% in 4 years. Total rent + child care is over $4k a month - or $50k a year. For the typical family that's most of their post-tax income gone immediately

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