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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 19h

not only are US escalators slower, but they are way more expensive - and fail or are out of order at much higher rates than other countries

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"This was surprising to me to learn, that currently applicants need 30 plus permits from eight different departments to build housing in the city." -Seattle Budget Director Aly Pennucci just now

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Seattle New Liberals @seattle.cnliberalism.org · 29/09/2026

Watching Strauss chair the Budget Committee is an annual exercise in pulling my hair out.

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Dan Bertolet @danbertolet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Note to Seattle policymakers who want to expand MHA: The most rigorous study ever done on IZ found that the typical program in CA reduces homebuilding by nearly one third. And all renters pay the price in higher rents caused by the worsened shortage. Unfunded IZ is a regressive policy.

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Seattle New Liberals @seattle.cnliberalism.org · 26/09/2026

The day Dan Strauss releases his Chairs Package is colloquially known as "Christmas Morning" on the floor because everyone gets what they want.

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Dan Bertolet @danbertolet.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Good on CM Foster for stepping up on dialing back MHA! Not so good, though, about expanding MHA into NR zones. IZ is especially bad for small scale projects, which is why Oregon state law bans IZ for projects with 10 units or less. And the only real way to get the IZ dials right is to fund it.

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Greater Seattle: Councilmember Foster Breaks the MHA Logjam - PubliCola

By Josh Feit Councilmember Dionne Foster > Mayor Katie Wilson You couldn’t have a clearer juxtaposition. Mayor Wilson tried to…

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Sanders Lauture @golf1052.com · 22/09/2026

New Seattle budget page is up. 735 pages www.seattle.gov/city-budget-...

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2027-2028 Proposed Budget - City Budget Office | seattle.gov

View the 2027-2028 Proposed Budget

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Seattle New Liberals @seattle.cnliberalism.org · 19/09/2026

There is a legal mandate that goes into effect this year for all city budgets to be balanced for 3 years (not just 1). Any mayor would have had to balance this budget through 2030.

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Logan Bowers @loganb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Popped into Seattle City Council public comment today to support the MHA tax reduction (regressive tax on housing) and oppose the addition of MHA to all former single family zones. Look at that crowd! Nearly every builder in the whole damn city showed up and they all had “proud YIMBY” signs. 🤩

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 10/09/2026

Maybe taxing jobs isn’t such a good idea if you want more of them. 👀 In all seriousness, though, it’s good to see her take Seattle’s high office vacancy rate and small business environment more seriously. Hopefully this task force transcends vibes and moves to action.

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Seattle mayor launches task force as city faces 'fragile' economic moment

Warning that Seattle’s economy is at a “fragile moment,” Mayor Katie Wilson has ordered the creation of a new task force aimed at helping businesses 'start, sta

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

50% of salmon in the state are dying because of stormwater runoff from cars but a few fish die because of this sustainable transit mode and we deploy divers and act like it’s an environmental hazard. Oh, cars are also our city and state’s top CO2 emitter

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The biggest US transit story of this year has been the massive growth of Seattle Link Light Rail ridership in the wake of the 1 & 2 lines connecting The Link moved a record 5M passengers last month, up 35% from last year, and it's now America's biggest light rail network!

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Ryan Donohue @rpdonohue.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

As many know, every year Fort Lawton sits empty is another year families are priced out of one of Seattle's best neighborhoods. We at Habitat for Humanity are ready to go, but we need your help. Use this link to comment today! habitatforhumanityseattle.quorum.us/campaign/167554

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Cary Westerbeck @caryw.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Can we do this in Washington state too? Please?

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

weird Montana senate subplot where this weirdo has no chance of running but is refusing to drop out because she wants to be a spoiler for the independent Dan Osborn-style candidate and help republicans get elected

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 21/07/2026

The two hardest and most unforgiving facts in housing policy are that it actually costs a lot of money to build new homes and that the rents that poor people can afford are not enough to pay off the cost of construction.

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 22/07/2026

Private equity is absolutely NOT the reason American fire trucks are so expensive. It’s lazy analysis to suggest as much. What about American fire departments thinking they’re so special that they can’t possibly use international-standard apparatuses? I’m losing my mind @jasoncoxnc.bsky.social

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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Deeply embarrassing that the Stranger continues to avoid defending Sawant’s, IMO disqualifying, move to fly to Michigan to campaign against Kamala Harris, where she said “this is ground zero to punish Kamala Harris and defeat her.” I voted for Sawant previously, but never will again

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Dan Bertolet @danbertolet.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Excellent discussion of how a land value tax can help cities get more housing built and boost economic development in their downtowns. WA state could authorize the equivalent of an LVT with the Vibrant Cities Act, which will be a top legislative priority for @sightline.org in the 2027 session.

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 13/07/2026

You aren’t “condoning environmental destruction” if you simply recognize that it’s an unambiguously excellent thing for downtown Seattle and the wider region to have thousands of additional visitors every day for months on end.

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Councilmember Eddie Lin @cmeddielin.seattle.gov · 07/07/2026

A bike lane and hundreds of affordable homes in Magnolia have both been delayed since 2008 thanks in significant part to SEPA. Getting people out of cars and building new affordable housing in the City are both good for the environment!

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 07/07/2026

I am quickly being negatively polarized in favor of complete and total SEPA abolition.

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

It's SEPA all the way down, folks. www.courts.wa.gov/opinions/pdf...

CONCLUSION
We affirm the SHB and KCSC’s grants of summary judgment to the
Coalition. The Missing Link is not categorically SEPA-exempt, and the City must
meet SEPA requirements if it moves forward with the Missing Link. The Coalition
had standing to make its challenges, and Cascade’s jurisdictional challenge is
now moot. Finally, the KCSC did not violate the separation of powers in its order
requiring the City to comply with SEPA.

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Tech 4 Housing @tech4housing.org · 03/07/2026

MHA is like taxing farmers during a famine.

Graph showing that the number of applications to construct new housing has declined significantly since the MHA tax on renters was enacted while applications to build housing outside of MHA area state study. Both have started to decline since interest rates and inflation went up.

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Seattle YIMBY @seattleyimby.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

We have a red alarm fire at City Hall after @mayorofseattle.bsky.social shelved legislation for an MHA holiday. We're down 94% in apt permits from peak and need to take every action possible to boost supply. Please use this link to contact her office to reconsider. actionnetwork.org/letters/unfr...

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Unfreeze our housing pipeline: Don't let rents spiral out of reach

See Seattle's building dashboard here Right now, a well-intentioned city policy called Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA) is backfiring. By placing massive, outdated fees on new construction, it h...

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macdiehard.bsky.social @macdiehard.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

A victory for landlords. Renters will pay more with less housing built in the next few years.

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

One last point: MHA fees have been cratering in recent years as development has slowed. If the gamble Mayor Wilson is making backfires, that slide could become precipitous—and any percent of zero dollars is zero.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Egypt and Iran have requested that Pride events in Seattle during their World Cup match be canceled and… no. Welcome to Seattle. This might be the most patriotic I’ve felt in my life. Pride isn’t happening during your game; you’re here during Pride. Suck a rainbow. apnews.com/article/worl...

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Iran and Egypt will meet, uncomfortably, in Seattle's World Cup 'Pride Match'

Egypt and Iran are two of the most repressive countries for gays and lesbians. But by sheer coincidence they will square off in a World Cup “Pride Match” in Seattle coinciding with the city’s annual c...

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I feel it’s sort of underrated the extent to which a Dem Congress and/or states could (1) absolutely destroy car dealerships as a business, and (2) this would cripple a lot of GOP state and local parties

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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Seattle is about to get screwed. King County Council is proposing to increase our sales tax and send it to wealthy suburbs that don’t want to pay for their own road building. It will soak Seattle for $3 million a year, in perpetuity, to maintain roads in Medina and Bellevue. Ask for a fair deal 👇🏻

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

In a letter to King County Councilmembers, eight members of the Seattle City Council call a proposed Seattle-only cap on pass-through funding from a new countywide 0.1% sales tax "not acceptable nor equitable" and ask that it be fully dropped at Friday's planned vote.

As King County considers new revenue options for funding roads maintenance in unincorporated King
County, a focus on affordability and equity is critical. Passthrough dollars to cities is a good start, but the
proposal to cap that funding and restrict how it can be spent is not acceptable nor equitable. We ask that
King County Council consider removing the binding cap that solely impacts City of Seattle.
Under proposed Amendment 2A, our central staff analysis suggests that cities like Hunts Point, Yarrow
Point, Beaux Arts Village, and others would receive a disproportionately high amount of passthrough
funding per capita. And the redistribution of Seattle’s sales tax dollars won’t go to the small cities that
need this funding most, like Skykomish and Carnation; these dollars will go to medium and large cities
such as Redmond, Kirkland, and Sammamish. Meanwhile, Seattle will receive the lowest per capita
amount of any city in King County. Further, under this amendment, the total amount Seattle would be
eligible for would drop dramatically from approximately $4,812,197 to $1,910,625. Like many cities, the
City of Seattle is grappling with a structural budget deficit and increased demand for city services. With
this in mind, we have significant concerns with a proposal that will shift our residents’ tax dollars from
Seattle to other cities.
Seattle voters frequently champion transportation investments at the ballot box, and we do not take that
support for granted. Per the authorizing RCW 36.73.020, jurisdictions are able to establish transportation
benefit districts to fund transportation improvement projects, and we encourage more jurisdictions to
consider establishing their own transportation benefit districts to fund their own services.

Seattle residents already pay the highest sales taxes in the country. That is not something to be celebrated,
but rather it reflects our deeply regressive tax code and the limited revenue options afforded to
jurisdictions to fund our basic services. The poorest Seattleites pay a higher percentage of their income in
taxes than any of the residents of the county’s richest enclaves.
Seattleites have shown we are willing to shoulder our fair share of the burden, but our residents deserve a
fair share of the returns. Should a King County roads measure pass, it must include passthrough funding
without a cap.

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Let’s also not absolve the city staffers who catered to what these pro car NIMBYs asked for, despite the overwhelming support for the closure as well as numerous data points that show this is a boon for businesses on this street. They got the cover they wanted to shut it down. Deep state planners

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Seattle New Liberals @seattle.cnliberalism.org · 29/05/2026

This attitude is how we got into this mess. Completely backwards for an elected leader to be prioritizing this in a transit project

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Dan Bertolet @danbertolet.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

San Francisco assessed its IZ and found that "none of the financial models could support any inclusionary housing." That's because under current economic conditions pretty much nothing pencils even if 100% market rate. IZ just makes it worse, as it always does. media.api.sf.gov/documents/Tr...

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Seattle New Liberals @seattle.cnliberalism.org · 15/05/2026

Cool. We love Seattle taxpayers subsidizing suburban sprawl.

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

SEPA is designed to stop development and change. It cannot be reformed. It stalls upzones, transit projects, and yes, even reopening grocery stores under the same use. It shouldn’t be reformed, it should be abolished.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 12/05/2026

It's hard to avoid the conclusion that Bluesky has been a net negative for US politics. They corralled everyone on the left into a little glass fishbowl where they shout at one another & everyone else ignores them. Meanwhile, all the pols & institutions stayed on X & are being dragged farther right.

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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 11/05/2026

I will say I have heard a *lot* of people in NW Seattle saying some variation of this. "We agreed to all this density, now they're taking away the train." Doesn't justify NIMBYism to me. But yanking away the rail line everyone voted for is going to create a few more NIMBYs anyway. An own goal.

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Seattle New Liberals @seattle.cnliberalism.org · 10/05/2026

We can shave another ~$1 billion off if we change state law to allow ST to sell or use surplus land for market rate development. It's absolutely a conversation that needs to happen because it costs nothing to do.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 09/05/2026

Normies think “developers” are any real estate professional who makes money, not people who build new homes; “affordable housing” is cheap apartments they can afford, not means tested subsidized housing; and “condos” are any new multifamily housing, not apartments people own.

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Jordan Grimes @cafedujord.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

In the world of progressive politics, be a Mamdani (the housing crisis is the result of regulatory barriers on homebuilding), not a Jayapal (developers bad!)

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 10/05/2026

It is absolutely essential that #waleg do this in the next session so we can actually enact the Second Reconstruction that we need, if we have a Democratic President come 2029. So why aren’t any legislators advocating for it?

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

That is over $50,000,000 in lost revenue annually.

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Sanders Lauture @golf1052.com · 07/05/2026

The real big brain is to eliminate street parking but also have smaller fire trucks but we're only allowed to piss off one group of entrenched interests at a time.

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I’m here on Queen Anne where city officials will face neighbors angry that on-street parking will be removed to make room for fire trucks.

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Jordan Grimes @cafedujord.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

15 minutes into tonight's California gubernatorial debate: it's clear Becerra is totally unprepared to handle the state's two biggest challenges. Freezing insurance rates will destroy the market. Downpayment assistance (subsidizing demand) will never solve the housing crisis.

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Yimby Andy @yimbyandy.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Seattle perfected the stacked flat over a century ago. Why is OPCD still fiddling around with FAR, setbacks, pitched roofs, materials, etc.?

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Logan Bowers @loganb.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

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Tweet from the IBEW union calling out data center obstruction as NIMBYism.

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Seattle New Liberals @seattle.cnliberalism.org · 01/05/2026

So long as the data centers pay a higher rate for electricity than anyone else; (currently Seattle City Light's plan) there is zero negative impact from their development. But, they do create jobs and lots of tax revenue. A moratorium is unneeded NIMBY slopulism.

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