Seattle's Social Housing Developer wants to hear from you!

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Welcome to the @seasocialhousing.bsky.social team Véronique!

Rainier Beach Skatepark is nearing completion of Phase 1 to provide youth and families with a dedicated place to enjoy wheeled activities! To complete the planned community art elements, we need to raise $80,000. Will you donate today and help us make this vision a reality?

Ten THOUSAND people applied for the Seattle social housing lottery! People are eager for permanently affordable, publicly owned housing. Their housing and financial security depends on it.

I'm calling this another win for the former D2 Crew! Congrats to @devinsilvernail.bsky.social who supported my office in passing the Just Cause Eviction ordinance a few years ago. First Social Housing, then LWB, now this. Gratifying to know we made a material difference for Seattle.

If Manhattan can do it, Seattle can do it!

Loved hearing this profile of Senait and the creative work she and her peeps are doing to make ownership a reality for their community. AND WTF are we doing to make housing stability so fragile?

Following @selenagomezfanpage.bsky.social because I love Only Murders in the Building and because SHE'S A SPURS FAN!!! GO SPURS GO!!

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Excited to kick off this project with @nondriver.bsky.social.

WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you really should watch & share this news story. It’s pretty much perfect. Ford claims wrongly that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data. toronto.citynews.ca/video/2024/1...

Fyi, for the people who were heckling us today. Here's what happened to the sidewalk repairs. It was former Mayor Harrell. And there was $120K of TIB funding set aside for LWB safety improvements that got yanked from the project because of his delays of the safety improvements.

Wow, talk about critical mass! Fantastic turn out for the first Bicycle Weekend on LWB. Thanks to @rvgreenways.bsky.social and Safe Streets Alliance for organizing this celebration.

From dream to fruition in 5 years. Congrats to @houseourneighbors.bsky.social and @seasocialhousing.bsky.social on your first acquisition for social housing! I'm honored to have played a small part in this historic move toward publicly owned, permanently affordable housing in Seattle.

I miss The Admiral, but this native of San Antonio will gladly take Wemby's 28 foot shot. Go Spurs Go!!!

If anyone is watching TacoGate in the Talarico race, this Native Texan can assure you that a potato and egg taco is standard breakfast fare. There is no controversy. #PapaConHuevo

If you're free tomorrow at 12:30, I recommend catching a #SIFF screening www.siff.net/festival/und.... Chezik Tsunoda poured her heart into stories of a few of our homeless neighbors.

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As a Board member of @eoionline.bsky.social I am so thankful to have a mayor who is a deep thinker. Taxes? Childcare? Consumer protections? @mayorofseattle.bsky.social Katie Wilson comes prepared to discuss. She may not have all the answers yet, but she's deliberative and determined. So refreshing!

HEY SEATTLE did you know that 4 mega corps are currently courting Seattle City Light with data center proposals? Sabey, Prologis, Equinix and another unnamed real estate developer are in talks with our local power company to decide if they can build new centers here.

Whoa. Thanks for showing us the way Hungary!!

I took the pledge to not shop and march on May 1st with Washington Indivisible Network. Will you join me? Use this link to sign up: www.mobilize.us/washingtonin...

Paris’ hostile streets have found new life as Mayor Anne Hidalgo bravely transformed it from a city for passing through to a city for passing time. She faced fierce criticism but ultimately found broad support for her ambitious introduction of cycle lanes, pedestrian streets, and public transport. 🧵

Join us Saturday, April 18, at the Duwamish River Community Hub for the Port Pathways Hiring Fair. Connect with employers hiring for entry-level roles across aviation, maritime, construction, and green jobs. www.portseattle.org/page/duwamis...

In our sister city, Nantes, *all* their city planning incorporates this reality into their design. It makes mobility better for everyone.

Gotta love @ricksteves.bsky.social! " on this tour the bus couldn't get down the center of town because the mayor of Florence wants pedestrians, bikes, and the sound of birds." Swoon... www.instagram.com/reel/DV1Vgk4...

Who can tell me what the men's brooches are about at tonight's #Oscars??

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Thank you to all the #WaLeg members who voted YES on the Millionaires Tax and beginning to fix our upside down tax system! And huge appreciation for all the advocates, families, neighbors and MILLIONAIRES who testified in favor of the bill. On to the Senate for concurrence!

Hear that #WALeg Senate? As soon as you concur in the House amendments, Gov Ferguson is ready to sign it into law! Let's get this done!

Don't let opposition pit us against each other. We want support for small businesses because they are essential to a strong economy. Let's clear up some blatant misinformation: The vast majority of small businesses and pass-through entities won't be affected by the Millionaires Tax. #WALeg

...Instead, spending has declined by 61% in K-12 education; 68% in higher education; and (since 1998) by 44% in social, health, and human services... Thanks to the incredible staff @eoionline.bsky.social for calling BS!

@seiu925.bsky.social Wenatchee early learning worker Lupita Suarez: "childcare programs run on narrow margins, we are doing our part for our local communities, it is time you act to make our state more fair and fund childcare and other services people like me rely on"

Lillian of Latino Community Fund: "workers struggle to feed themselves or families while corporations and those with most wealth aren't paying their fair share. Millionaires Tax would bring real resources with working families tax credit & lower sales taxes on essential goods. Urges support

Sam McVeety, who says he would pay the Millionaires Tax is here in support: "My husband and I believe in a strong public education system, and want to support that by giving back and paying this tax."

Our board member Matt Loschen in strong support of a Millionaires Tax, which he would ✨proudly✨ pay. #WALeg

For the record, all staff at EOI are in strong support of the Millionaires Tax.

@kuow.org Senator Saldaña has been in office for 10 years. Your reporters should be pronouncing her name correctly by now. Please respect the diversity of our region by pronouncing people's names correctly

Time to move away from funding our 21st century society with tools rooted in maintaining the oligarchy.

Sports coverage all day long: Vrabel Vrabel Vrabel Mike Macdonald: We do not care.

We're ready! #SuperbowlLX

Thank you @amysundberg.bsky.social for laying out the list of things we SHOULD be investing in to reduce gun violence. And some of the reasons our neighbors and communities should be protected from constant surveillance.

Dozens of Seattlites came out this morning to make whistle packets. When I left at 12:30 we had made 3500 already! Thanks to @ourcommonpower.bsky.social for organizing!! #ICEOUTNOW ❌️👑

Thank you @indivisible.org for this webinar. Thanks to @aclu.org and the National Day Laborer Organizing Network for sharing important information about how we can all step up to bear witness to the brutality of this regime

It's hard to argue with him. We are facing a decades-long fight to recover. And we, as a country, are not prepared for the sacrifices it will take to win. Time to step up.

Holy razors Batman, that was a close shave!!

It's fascinating and disturbing that the same people he who fight tooth and nail for the right to carry concealed weapons are now using such as justification for shooting Mr. Pretti. This regime is shameless.