Address Seattle’s widening wealth-gap by prioritizing funding for Housing for all. Seattle has fallen short of its responsibility to provide clean, safe, and affordable housing for all its residents. In 2022, we must start to build an equitable housing future by investing $634,750,000 in housing, supports and land acquisition. We urge the city to:
Commit 65% of the JumpStart revenue (at least $132 million annually), to acquisition, construction, and operation of deeply green affordable housing;
Develop additional progressive revenue sources to bring housing funding to levels that actually can address the city and region’s longstanding housing deficit; We propose investing half a billion dollars per year in creating social housing.
Support housing stability through renter protections and legal aid, emergency shelter and land banking;
Support community-led efforts that pursue the goals to provide housing for all and to address the historical and present day impacts of exclusionary zoning and redlining.