Posted on 09/04/2022 2:29:01 PM PDT by simpson96
The backers of I-135 to create a new public developer “to build, acquire, own, and manage social housing” in Seattle say they have successfully gathered enough signatures to place the initiative on the ballot —but the vote won’t come until 2023.
“Voters across Seattle will now get the opportunity to vote for a new intervention to our affordable housing approach,” the House Our Neighbors! group said in a statement. “We are on the brink of establishing a public developer to create housing for folks who are in the 0-120% AMI bracket, where restorative justice measures must be implemented —no more punitive evictions.”
Backers say their proposed ballot initiative would establish a developer to create more rental housing options in the city, powered by public funding and protected from free-market influences and City and County restrictions.
Unlike the existing Seattle Housing Authority, which typically serves only low-income residents, backers of the House Our Neighbors! proposal say the new authority would be free of federal constraints on income levels and could be made available to renters with earnings ranging from 0% to 120% of area median income to help create a diverse pool of tenants across the authority’s properties.
Starting the authority would be funded by the City budget with ongoing funding to be determined from local and state sources. The City Council would be required to sort out how to fund the department with the option to pursue bonds for the public developer.
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In the meantime, the November ballot will include votes on the battle for King County Prosecutor — retiring prosecutor Dan Satterberg’s Chief of Staff Leesa Manion would be the first woman and Person of Color to serve in the role, while Federal Way Mayor Jim Ferrell would bring a throwback, “tough on crime” approach to the office.
(Excerpt) Read more at southseattleemerald.com ...
I can see it now...crime thugs etc. I thought the old housing projects filled this need? Oh, ‘restorative’ housing...meeans you know who gets free housing for life.
Protected from city & county restrictions?
Yep. Guaranteed.
I envision barbed wire compounds with public toilets and showers, employing every social worker in King County. Of course the barbed wire will be from 100% recycled scrap metal. The showers will be .25GPM low waste showers. Vegan diets, organic clothing issued, and free needle exchange centers with federally supplied Crack pipe kits complete with hand sanitizer and moisturizing lotion.
Such a noble cause. I’m sure it will be worth paying about $2MM per unit.
MAGA needs to conspire to somehow stealthily take majority control of this board. Most big cities have wealthy areas where leftists go to escape the ramifications of their political funding they inflict on the population. ALL such development should be targeted at exclusive leftist enclaves. This stuff only stops when wealthy enclaves share in the prescriptions mandated and supported by the wealthy residents.
Remember Seattle’s “autonomous zone”?
It’s autonomous be the WHOLE city
So he's bringing to the table being tough on crime, and all that goes with that.
And she's bringing to the table ...her skin color.
Well, there is some good news in this Initiative. Namely, all of the derelicts will be domiciled in Seattle and not infecting other cities in Washington State.
To: Seattle Taxpayers
From: Olde
You are about to get screwed - again.
Best Regards,
Plank #1 of the Communist Manifesto: Abolition of private property rights.
“Most big cities have wealthy areas where leftists go to escape the ramifications of their political funding they inflict on the population.”
Exactly. We have the same stupid sh*t our commie city council members have thinking money is free and comes from trees. It’s ALL “feel good” policies but if you personally ask them, would you live close by to these homeless shelters or poor houses, it’s a big fat NO.
Hypocrites.
The fired Kevin Mather who ran the Seattle Mariners until 3 years ago infamously had a video where he ranted about everything Seattle before he got the pink slip.
In it, he stated the crime wave downtown and that their rookies know of it, and they wont sign long-term . One of those rookies is in Triple AAA.
Sounds like a fun place that will be run by a warlord and his thugs.
“Unlike the existing Seattle Housing Authority, which typically serves only low-income residents, backers of the House Our Neighbors! proposal say the new authority would be free of federal constraints on income levels and could be made available to renters with earnings ranging from 0% to 120% of area median income to help create a diverse pool of tenants across the authority’s properties.”
““We are on the brink of establishing a public developer to create housing for folks who are in the 0-120% AMI bracket, where restorative justice measures must be implemented — no more punitive evictions.”
So...the chump paying his rent will subsidize the renter who will not pay.
...Because that is what will happen. No money means no skin in the game and no responsibility to take care of the rental.
“Sounds like a fun place that will be run by a warlord and his thugs”
Yeah and there already is one.........chicago
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