Episode 62 tackles Seattle's housing crisis from two different directions and then dives deep into the recent Seattle Art Fair. Credit: steve estvanik/Shutterstock
Episode 62 tackles Seattles housing crisis from two different directions and then dives deep into the recent Seattle Art Fair.
Episode 62 of the podcast tackles Seattle’s housing crisis from two different directions. Then it takes a deep dive into the Seattle Art Fair. steve estvanik/Shutterstock

Last year, Stranger reporter Heidi Groover exposed some sweetheart move-in deals that Seattle landlords were offering only to tech workers and other high-income apartment hunters. (Not eligible for sweetheart deals: poorer apartment hunters.) This week, the Seattle City Council passed a law against such deals and at 1:35, Heidi explains what the new law means.

Then, at 5:20, local urban planning activist Cary Moon is on to talk about the bigger picture of this city’s ongoing housing crisis and what additional laws and taxes could do to help.

Zorn B. Taylors photograph is in the group show What You See Is What You Sweat at the Good Arts Building.
This Zorn B. Taylor photograph is in the group show What You See Is What You Sweat at the Good Arts Building. JG

After that, at 14:19, Stranger visual art critic Jen Graves talks about the recent Seattle Art Fair, what it was good for, what it lacked, and the impressive satellite shows you can still see.

A photograph from one of those satellite shows is at left. Graves describes it as “powerful” and “a reminder of the different ways that we are judged and judge each other as women across racial lines.” (Here’s her Facebook live discussion with the artist and subject—starts at about 6:00.)

Finally, at 32:06, we tell you what to do this weekend. Plus…

Eli Sanders was The Stranger's associate editor. His book, "While the City Slept," was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He once did this and once won...