Midweek Video: Texas’s Power Disaster Is a Warning Sign for the US

https://youtu.be/Zcrsgdl_hP0 In this short video, Vox explains how Texas' March electric energy failure could be just the tip of the iceberg for America going forward....

‘One Night Count’ Is Tonight

Every January, a count of our fellow residents experiencing homelessness is conducted across Seattle and King County. Last year, the results of the One...

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...

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...

Share Your Opinion on the ORCA for All Proposal to Reduce Transit Costs for...

Recently the King County Council made headlines when it voted to expand on ORCA Lift to provide free Metro bus service for qualifying riders....

Seattle to Acquire UW Laundry Site for Affordable Housing

On June 15th, the Seattle City Council was briefed on a bill to transfer the Mount Baker University of Washington (UW) Laundry site to...

New Photography Exhibit Shares Stories of Homesteading in Pioneer Square

Home Now is a compelling mix of art and activism that invites viewers to make a human-to-human connection with their unhoused neighbors. It was time...
The courtyard at Midtown Square is surrounded by a 7-story apartment complex.

How King County’s Basic Income Program Could Fight Poverty and Increase Safety

Research has showed the promise of guaranteed basic income programs to interrupt the cycle of poverty, and participants in King County's pilot program told The Urbanist that it had helped them improve their circumstances.