You gave national numbers not Seattle. And you seem to want to hate developers for some reason. Fuck them for building housing for people, right? What a silly ideology you seem to have.
It's really sad that you put ideology above competence. Her ideas are going to fail because of her lack of experience. And then we will never see progress towards them.
None of those things are relevant to the job of Mayor. And as far as coalition building she has refused to meet with housing providers despite claiming housing is an important issue so it seems she only builds coalitions of people who are similar. Which isn't really a skill.
Wilson is also completely inexperienced and appears to be a great example of the Dunner-Kruger effect. Reading her issues I support her but reading her resume should scare anyone from voting for her.
Rents have been pretty stable during Harrell's 3 years. So not sure what this failure is. Also, affordable housing is losing massive amounts of money in Seattle because of state, county, and city policies. So not sure what this make more profit comes from. Do you have any actual true information?
I literally work in affordable housing so I know the issues. And yeah housing crisis will continue to get worse as long as people like you have influence in the city government. And if Wilson gets elected rents will go even higher.
Not sure what the article proves but developers in Seattle built affordable housing until the last few years. Now I think all, or most, have stopped developing affordable housing in Seattle because of the regulations.
Regulations increase costs. Increased costs mean increase rents. How is this hard to understand? And more specifically in Seattle we pass regulations without talking to housing experts to see how they affect things and how we can make them work well.
All greed is real. Yet you’re only focusing on developer greed which is why it’s nonsense. Also, the recent sale of the Cornelius $11 million below purchase price 9 years ago shows how little interest there is in middle priced housing because of Seattle policies
Blackstone has been pretty good about not letting their properties go market rate after their tax credits go away. But your developer greed nonsense is ridiculous. You clearly don’t understand housing in Seattle but form strong opinions regardless….
Not all but some definitely were. Though I’m not sure there are any building now but Blackstone just bought about 1,000 affordable units in Seattle after a local developer couldn’t afford to own them any more. Local laws have made it too expensive and dangerous
It’s frustrating how confident you seem on statements that are clearly incorrect. I wish you would learn about housing before you formed such strong opinions. I don’t know what you get out of spreading disinformation but it does mean you don’t care about housing being affordable.
I don't know what both sides of their mouth you're talking about. But regardless, if you don't talk to housing providers about housing you're going to have a housing crisis. You know...like we have had for 20 years in Seattle.
Progressives just don't understand housing. And they refuse to even allow housing providers a seat at the table. How do you solve a housing crisis when you leave out the people that actually provide housing?
Katie Wilson's platform on housing shows she is very uninformed on housing. And she has refused to talk to people with housing experience to help explain some of the flaws in her plans. If she continues this ignorance housing costs will go up and supply go down.
I am literally describing what I saw when I was at that specific protest. I've been at numerous protests and been teargassed a couple of times. I don't know why you're trying to portray the protest on Wednesday falsely but don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining.
The cops last night specifically stayed away and out of sight, except for some lookouts. It's not trust the protests get agitated when they are there so cops stay away. Like make up your mind.
The cops didn't want to escalate. It was just time for things to be done and for the streets to be cleared. They had a lot of resources tied up blocking the roads for them. Including SFD that were waiting to put out the fire.
