Erica Barnett

Guest contributor Erica C. Barnett covers city politics and policy in Seattle at her blog The C Is for Crank and for numerous print and online publications. She cofounded PubliCola, the state and local politics blog, and was previously a staff writer and news editor at The Stranger, a reporter for Seattle Weekly, and news editor at the Austin Chronicle.

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Erica's Articles

Community Low-Income Housing Providers Need COVID-19 Relief Too

Unpaid rent threatens solvency of nonprofit subsidized housing.

May 1, 2020

May 1, 2020

Erica Barnett

https://www.sightline.org/author/ericabarnett/
How Cascadian Cities Can Be Smarter about Their Surplus Land

What if local governments viewed surplus land not as a revenue generator but an opportunity to reduce displacement?

Oct 29, 2018

October 29, 2018

Erica Barnett

https://www.sightline.org/author/ericabarnett/
Modular Construction: A Housing Affordability Game-Changer?

Mass production could make apartments radically cheaper and faster to build.

Aug 2, 2018

August 2, 2018

Erica Barnett

https://www.sightline.org/author/ericabarnett/
Are Outdated Notions of “Industrial Areas” Hiding a Giant Housing Opportunity?

Is it time for mixed industrial-housing zones?

May 8, 2018

May 8, 2018

Erica Barnett

https://www.sightline.org/author/ericabarnett/
Anchors Against Displacement

Seattle experiments with community-owned hubs and job incubators.

May 25, 2017

May 25, 2017

Erica Barnett

https://www.sightline.org/author/ericabarnett/
Event: Homeownership: Receding Dream or New Approaches?

A panel on making ownership possible for moderate-income people in immoderate housing markets.

May 18, 2017

May 18, 2017

Erica Barnett

https://www.sightline.org/author/ericabarnett/