Michael Bell
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MoCo’s housing isn’t dirt cheap, but it’s close (Part 2)
Read more: MoCo’s housing isn’t dirt cheap, but it’s close (Part 2)This is Part 2 in a series on our county’s distorted housing market. You can read Part 1 here. When it comes to housing policy in Montgomery County (and probably other jurisdictions), the activists and policymakers ignore science and gravitate to unfounded generalizations that justify a policy they want to implement. Some County Council members…
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Follow the science? Not in Jawando’s push for rent-control. (Part 1)
Read more: Follow the science? Not in Jawando’s push for rent-control. (Part 1)Council Member Will Jawando is leading the County Council’s effort to introduce county-wide rent control. Since taking office, CM Jawando has been pursuing policies, enactments, and budgets that are void of any policy analysis, and the issue of rent control is no exception. In this post we’ll review remarks he made at a recent hearing…