Seattle’s public housing is supposed to provide our city’s lowest-income people and families with affordable, comfortable places to live. From what our organization, Got Green, a community ...

In 2023, voters had already resoundingly approved the social housing authority, agreeing that a new entity would be created to acquire and construct mixed-income housing and keep it permanently ...

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When Zohran Mamdani won the New York City mayoral race, social housing, public transit, and rent freeze advocates who had supported his platform applauded the results. Now, in the Pacific Northwest, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Roger Valdez writes about housing economics and policy. The problems being faced by Seattle’s affordable, subsidized housing ...

Ballots are out, and Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell is fighting to keep his seat against progressive organizer Katie Wilson, who outperformed him by nearly 10 percentage points in the August primary. Why ...

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While public housing is notoriously underfunded in the United States, the result of a bipartisan aversion to government-owned housing, McCoy says the mixed-income approach that Seattle is taking with ...