Jake: Can Seattle learn from its affordable housing mistake?
Seattle is evaluating its decade-long affordable housing initiative following reports of poor results. Critics suggest the program suffered from flawed mathematical modeling despite positive intentions.
Seattle has been running this experiment for a decade with "affordable housing," and the results are in. Good intentions, bad math.
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