Nwprogressive.org/weblog/2025/02/seattle-voters-embrace-excess-compensation-tax-to-build-social-housing-reject-chamber-conceived-alternative

Seattle voters embrace excess compensation tax to build social housing, reject Chamber-conceived alternative 2025/02/13 05:00

• URL: https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/02/13/worcester-resolution-transgender-sanctuary-city
• Posted: 2025-02-13 05:00:21 (date: 2025/02/13)
• Topics: US/WA/Seattle homelessness Amazon.com, Microsoft, T‑Mobile Russell Investments The Seattle Times Bruce Harrell (mayor)
• Summary: «A grassroots initiative that would create a new source of progressive revenue to build publicly-owned social housing in Seattle appears to be on its way to a decisive victory tonight despite an onslaught of corporate cash in opposition, suggesting that voters in the Emerald City are eager to try a new approach to tackling our housing crisis.» [...] «The Seattle Times and the region’s largest corporations campaigned emphatically for the alternative conceived by the Chamber. Amazon, Microsoft, T‑Mobile, and Russell Investments underwrote the 1B campaign with large checks. Mailers sent out by the campaign for 1B carried the endorsement of Mayor Bruce Harrell.»

• author: Andrew Villeneuve
• source: Northwest Progressive Institute