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This blog post went up on Saturday, September 12. It says:

>> MUCH cleaner air will push in by 4 PM Sunday over the coastal zone and will just reach Seattle late in the afternoon

>> By 1 AM Monday, air quality will be hugely better in western Washington

As of now (Tuesday) there is no sign of clearing. Here in Seattle we are still in the "very unhealthy" range for AQI.

From that CityObservatory article:

  Zumper has also made a name for itself through its “National Rent Reports”
  —more or less monthly press releases that claim to track median rental prices around the country. 
  These reports have received copious media coverage, from the Bay Area to Seattle to Nashville to Chicago to Boston to LA to Miami to Denver, and so on.

Note that Zumper is not a reliable source for median rent data. CityObservatory wrote an article about their data problems a few years ago [1]. Zumper's data is, of course, based on apartments that are for rent and doesn't include currently occupied units. That alone skews high, especially when there is a lot of higher-rent new construction hitting the market. Also, it looks like Zumper's data skews towards higher-end neighborhoods.

For a broader look at the rental market, including occupied units and rent-controlled units, you could just consult ACS data. That says that median rent for all occupied 1-bedrooms in San Fransisco was $1912 in 2017 [2].

[1] http://cityobservatory.org/journalists-should-be-wary-of-med...

[2] https://censusreporter.org/data/table/?table=B25031&geo_ids=...

I've heard good things about oshpark[1] for hobbyists, but I personally have never used them.

[1] https://oshpark.com/

Its striking how much less bunching there is on the two routes (P/G) that operate in exclusive right-of-way.

The CO2 is also an input; it originally comes from the environment, so this is net-zero emissions in the same way that biofuels are. From the article:

   Although the bus emits CO2, Team Fast argues that the original CO2 used to create the hydrozine is 
   taken from existing sources, such as air or exhaust fumes, so that no additional CO2 is produced
    - it's a closed carbon cycle in the jargon.