Andrew Engelson

1 month ago | theurbanist.org | Andrew Engelson

Constructing affordable housing in the cities on the east side of Lake Washington has always been a challenge, thanks in part to high real estate prices, restrictive zoning and regulations, and more limited funding sources compared to Seattle. And though some municipal policy changes in the past five years have helped ameliorate the situation, other factors still make it extremely challenging to fund, permit, and build affordable housing on the Eastside.

Mar 20, 2025 | columbiainsight.org | Andrew Engelson |Publi Cola

By Andrew Engelson. March 20. 2025. Mike McCarthy, a pear orchardist who has been farming in Oregon’s Hood River Valley since 1980, says skyrocketing land prices and challenging economics are causing an unprecedented loss of farmland in the state. “Low incomes are the real issue. Many farmers don’t want to farm anymore. Or your kids don’t want to take over because there’s no money—and it’s hard work, says McCarthy.

Feb 26, 2025 | theurbanist.org | Andrew Engelson

In mid-January, Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell announced the city had awarded $22 million in grants to 42 organizations as part of the city’s Equitable Development Initiative (EDI), a program launched 2016 to prevent displacement of marginalized communities and help those communities reduce disparities and build generational wealth.

Feb 11, 2025 | superlawyers.com | Andrew Engelson

Construction attorney Daniel Douglass talks affordable housing Published in 2025 Georgia Super Lawyers magazine By Andrew Engelson on February 11, 2025 Daniel Douglass’ volunteer work with affordable housing dovetails nicely with his construction law practice in Atlanta, but its origins stretch back to a childhood in South Carolina, where his parents were active in the Presbyterian church. Douglass’s mother set a particularly compassionate example: playing music for senior groups despite...

Feb 10, 2025 | cascadepbs.org | Andrew Engelson |Grant Hindsley

Nearly 50,000 boats each year use the Locks to cross those bodies of water – making them the busiest locks in the United States. “People would come from out of town to visit us, and we’d go to the Locks. I’d tell them: Let me show you this awesome place.”That awesome place, opened in 1917, attracts more than two million visitors each year, according to the US Army Corps of Engineers. The Ballard Locks, officially known as the Hiram M.