April 15th, 2015
Next week, on Thursday, 4/23, at 6:00 pm in City Council Chambers, Councilmember Kshama Sawant and I are co-hosting a Town Hall to discuss the impacts of rising rents on Seattle residents and what we can do about it. I hope that you can join us. Sponsoring organizations include the Community Housing Caucus, the Church […]
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June 9th, 2014
Capitol Hill Housing is accepting lease applications for affordable apartments in their 12th Ave Arts building on Capitol Hill. Units are reserved for those earning 60% or less of the area median income.
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September 17th, 2010
Equitable development creates healthy communities of opportunity. Equitable outcomes come about when intentional strategies are put in place to ensure that low-income communities and communities of color participate in and benefit from decisions that shape their neighborhoods. With the economic recession and the Obama administration support for equitable development principles, communities are organizing to use recovery dollars to promote communities that empower those who have been hurt first and worst.
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September 13th, 2010
On Monday evening, Monday September 20, 2010, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., I will host an event called Can We Achieve Social Equity Using Smart Growth? It will be held in the Seattle City Council Chambers located on the Second floor of City Hall, 600 Fourth Avenue, in downtown Seattle.
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Posted: September 13th, 2010 under
Development and Sustainability,
Housing,
Human Services and Health,
Neighborhoods,
Planning and Land Use,
UP.
Tags:
Construction and Land Use (DCLU),
Land Use Code,
low-income housing,
Neighborhoods,
Rental Housing,
UP
March 7th, 2005
City taxpayers and ratepayers funded over half total costs at $45.5 million, or 53% of the total homeland security funding. Consequently, the City relied on significant contributions from its General, Operating, and Capital Improvement (CIP) funds for these security activities. The balance of approximately 47% of the total funding for homeland security activities came from grant sources.
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February 16th, 2004
This program was created in 1998, during my first year on the Council. It was intended to be an experimental 4-year program providing a ten-year property tax exemption for new housing development located in specific neighborhoods that needed more housing.
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September 11th, 2003
After nearly a year the Seattle Housing Authority (SHA), working with the Seattle Senior Housing Program (SSHP) Advisory Committee, will adopt new policies aimed at cutting program costs and moving to a tiered rent structure in an effort to guarantee future access to the SSHP for low-income seniors. This is a victory for the seniors who live in this SHA program since 75% of them are at 30% or below of median income.
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Posted: September 11th, 2003 under
Housing,
Human Services and Health,
Planning and Land Use,
Transportation,
UP.
Tags:
DEIS,
low-income housing,
monorail,
Neighborhoods Arts and Civil Rights,
Seattle Housing Authority,
Seattle Senior Housing Program Advisory Committee,
UP
September 26th, 2002
For some time now many of Seattle’s blue collar workers who traditionally lived and worked in downtown and other close-in neighborhoods have been pushed out of the City by high rents. People, who work in the arts industry, including artists, comprise a significant portion of these displaced workers. A new nation-wide study by Americans For The Arts reports that in 2000 $134 billion was produced in total economic arts activity in the U.S. This activity generated 4.8 million full-time equivalent jobs, $89.4 billion in household income, and $6.6 billion in local government tax revenues. Ironically, most workers in the arts can no longer afford to live in the urban areas to which their activities initially brought economic viability.
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June 20th, 2002
The $59.2 million Housing Levy adopted by the voters in 1995 has provided a major source of funding for affordable housing in the City, particularly for low-income households. The 1995 Housing Levy ends this year. The Council had committed to putting a new Housing Levy measure on the ballot in 2002.
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May 20th, 2001
Join me this Tuesday, May 22, 2001,from 10:30AM to 12:00 PM at The Dome Room in the Arctic Building, 700 3rd Ave, at 3rd Ave & Cherry Street. (enter through the side entrance, off Cherry Street) for a discussion on artists’ spaces.
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Posted: May 20th, 2001 under
Arts and Culture,
Development and Sustainability,
Housing,
Neighborhoods,
Parks,
Planning and Land Use,
UP.
Tags:
adequacy of open space,
artists,
Artists Space,
breathing room open space,
Construction and Land Use (DCLU),
Culture,
Department of Design,
low-income housing,
Pro Parks Citizen's Oversight Committee,
Rental Housing,
Seattle Arts Commission,
Seattle Housing Office,
UP,
usable open space
