Community Alliance Urges City to Stop and Rethink the Mercer Mega Block Sale
Public land is owned by all of us. City government acts as its steward, ensuring it is managed in the public interest, to benefit...
Councilmember Mosqueda Proposes New Tenant Protections for Buildings Up for Sale
The Seattle City Council's housing committee will take up further discussion and possibly vote on a new tenant protection measure sponsored by Councilmember Teresa...
Seattle City Council Notes: A Safer SR-520, Roosevelt Gets a Park, and Enhanced Tenant...
At the top of the agenda on Monday, the City Council discussed a resolution (Resolution 31611) on the SR-520 highway rebuild from Montlake to...
Red May: Dedicating A Month To Radical Left Thinking
Philip Wohlstetter has been stirring the pot in Seattle for quite some time.
In the 1980s Wohlstetter helped launch Invisible Seattle, an artist-led effort to redefine...
Seattle Is Wasting Another Opportunity For Social Housing
One would think, in the midst of a broad and deep housing crisis, that a nearly three-acre parcel in the heart of the city...
Top Urbanist Action: Ask County Council for Housing Not a Stadium Subsidy
It seemed like a done deal. The King County Council was going to fork over about $190M to pay for Safeco Field maintenance intended...
Sunday Video: Who Pays The Lowest Taxes In The US?
https://youtu.be/kXCGbAv8YPw
America may have an income tax, but the national tax structure is not remotely progressive and is weighted mostly against the poor and working...
New Legislation Poised to Create Tenant Protections and Preserve Affordable Housing in Seattle
The Seattle City Council is poised to take up legislation that would create new tenant protections and preserve affordable housing across the city. Proposed...