Yesterday, my heart felt warm and fuzzy as I read a post in a local Howard County Facebook group thanking the Hammond High School marching band for supporting the Wilde Lake High School marching band at the football game at the Lake this past Friday night. The HaHS band members cheered in support and joined the WLHS band in the stands to enjoy the game together. It was a classy and wonderful display of sportsmanship and support for a fellow HoCo school. Thank you, Hammond, for demonstrating kin...
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Power, Control, and Money
This is a multi-part series making yet another effort to correct misinformation and false narratives surrounding housing in Howard County. See the post Tale As Old As Time for the first part in the series. See Perception vs. Reality for the second.
In the other posts in this series, I dispelled a number of myths and popular false narratives surrounding housing in Howard County. One of the most popular narratives you'll hear in this county is that developers are greedy, profit-drive...
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Perception vs. Reality
This is a multi-part series making yet another effort to correct misinformation and false narratives surrounding housing in Howard County. See the post Tale As Old As Time for the first part in the series.
In Tale As Old As Time, I noted that there are some ubiquitous narratives surrounding development in Howard County that are little more than old wives' tales. I went on to list three tenets that contradict these narratives (our infrastructure inadequacies are the fault of elected official...
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Tale As Old As Time
This is a multi-part series making yet another effort to correct misinformation and false narratives surrounding housing in Howard County.
There are a lot of old wives' tales out there, well-worn precepts that are nearly universally believed because they contain a tiny grain of truth, but are otherwise bogus. You'll catch a cold if you go outside with wet hair in winter. You should wait an hour after eating before going swimming. Developers have ruined Howard County with overdevelopment and ...
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The One Where She Answers Housing Questions
Jason Booms over at Spartan Considerations wrote a post today presenting a list of questions regarding housing and inviting answers.
And boy, do I have answers. But before I get to it, it's important to note that housing is an incredibly complex topic with a lot of nuance. Housing problems cannot be solved by simple, singular solutions, but rather, by multiple solutions working in tandem - such as more supply at all income levels, more subsidies, and tenant protections. Additionally, it i...
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