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A PAC supporting Bruce Harrell has now raised more than $1 million from wealthy donors, and soon they will use it to attack me so that our city stays unaffordable. With less than a month until election day, I want to make a few things clear. #thisisyourcity

Vote @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social.

Quotes from canvassing for @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social: "I saw her Goodwill video and loved it, she's an actual person!" "Wilson? Yeah she's a commie. But I don't like Harrell much neither, so we'll see."

I believe it was @ronpdavis.bsky.social with this analogy. The pressure to build is like a boiling pot. Crack the lid just a bit, and a jet of steam comes out. "Wow, that's scary! Clearly we can't open the lid." But lift it off entirely, and nothing dramatic happens.

Allowing housing in EVERY neighborhood, rather than engaging in perennial piddly debates about tiny sections of Seattle, would greatly ease gentrification pressure in areas like the CD, CID, Southeast Seattle, and South Park because renters wouldn't be confined to tiny swaths of the city.

Thank you, @alexis4seattle.bsky.social!

Done. Please do so too!

Honestly hard not to take it personally when anti-housing activists describe the type of homes my friends and I live in as "a monstrosity" and "soulless."

Amazon is trying to buy Seattle’s election! Send your Democracy Vouchers or donate money to @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social to help cancel Corporate PAC spending. #ThisIsYourCity WilsonForSeattle.com

Thank you, @seattledot.bsky.social! Important not just to complain when they miss the mark, but also recognize when they do a good job.

We're two weeks out from the Final Seattle Comprehensive Plan Public Hearing on 9/12. This is a make-or-break moment that will decide the future of housing and growth in Seattle. Please join us in showing up and demanding a bold plan to address our city's housing crisis: bit.ly/OneSeattleFi...

The Seattle City Council is about to start taking votes on the 20-year Comprehensive Plan which will determine how housing in Seattle is built. I biked around Seattle to talk to people about what we need to do to build more housing, and make our communities more walkable, and livable.

I'm loving Rinck amendment 84-removing off-street parking requirements citywide, striking pages and pages and pages of antiquated text. We can put design first, rather than starting with the minimum parking and designing around that.

One of the reasons that new housings starts have tanked is that Harrell’s administration sat on the comp plan for a year. Property owners are treading water waiting for the new zoning. Spare me the election season rhetoric that Harrell is the right person to make housing more affordable.

"Just make eye contact"

Somewhat unsatisfyingly, a lot of the answer to "why can't we build enough homes, fast enough?" is simply that there are a thousand little friction points. Councilmember Rinck is doing the yeoman's work of smoothing them out, one at a time.

Want to drive in the bus lanes? You can — ride the bus!

At the April meeting of the Pike Place Market Constituency, a member said the following, opposing pedestrianization: "I don't like to smell the cars, and if I saw … an F-250 blowing smoke in my face, I wouldn't like it either, but…" (see next post)

@alexis4seattle.bsky.social continues to lead boldly, while the rest of council dithers or even no-shows their own committee meetings.

Do Your Job youtube.com/shorts/SF-1aCNqqRQ #SeattleCityCouncil #puppets #NoShow

"[Pike Place PDA Director] Ligtenberg said foot traffic at the market was up 4.5% in May and 8.5% in June, compared to last year...vendors have also reported better sales. One key indicator, called “percent rent,” which tracks what businesses pay to the PDA based on sales, was up 6.6% in June."

Nothing to see here, just your average experience on Route 8 (thanks @juanjpg.bsky.social for the video!) • Bus takes 16 minutes to go one block • Riders give up halfway and just start walking • 2 other buses manage to catch up in the meantime

Voted!

Seattle has its own Zohran v Cuomo mayoral race going on: A young charismatic upstart who actually wants to make the city cooler vs an establishment dinosaur who once pulled a gun on a pregnant woman in a road rage incident. www.theurbanist.org/2025/06/29/o...

I sense a theme here...Some mayors plan their cities for vibrant density and more affordable livability. Some mayors eliminate the possibility of neighborhood centers near their own homes to keep out the riffraff. #SeattleNeedsaRealMayor

Our campaign is calling on the city to implement *immediate* safety improvements on Rainier. There have been 1,500 injury and fatality crashes on this street over the last decade. This is unacceptable. South Seattle deserves safe streets.

ACTION ALERT Support Markus Johnson's amendment to unlock stacked flats in Washington State! Send a letter with the link below. futurewise.salsalabs.org/DefendSingle... Pictured: a stacked flat in Cambridge, MA

What until you see the outtakes… Join me in supporting Dionne Foster for Seattle City Council Pos. 9!

tomorrow (saturday)! no experience necessary! action is the antidote for anxiety! 💪

I've gone to many hearings like this, and while the talking points have changed over the years(housing opponents can't call renters "transients" and get sympathy anymore, so now they talk about trees) but the underlying complaint is identical: I don't want apartments (renters) in MY neighborhood.

Yep, that's me. And that's exactly what happened. Build more homes, give me power against my landlord!

🚨Comp Plan hearing! Monday 6/22!🚨 ways to participate: 📨Email a comment to [email protected] 🖥️Comment virtually (9am) 👋Attend in-person (3pm) - hold a sign! 🗣️Give a 1 min, in-person comment (3pm-???) several of us will be there livechatting in discord - join us! 💪 www.meetup.com/west-seattle...

🚨 Make a plan to comment at the Seattle City Council Comprehensive Plan meeting on Monday, June 23. The council will hold a public hearing on proposals for more housing across the city, including middle housing and neighborhood centers, and supportive land use reforms. Agenda link below.

Is the dream of homeownership dead in Seattle?

Fantastic article. I find myself falling exactly into these traps during advocacy.

I received the same response to my email and just sent this reply

one-textbox survey from SDOT about adding 140 parking spaces to Alki Ave for traffic calming - due June 22 forms.office.com/Pages/Respon... Please consider telling SDOT that Alki needs traffic calming but does not need more waterfront parking. We suggest a treatment like Alki Point Healthy Street.

*heaviest of eye rolls* Remember when Moore, Rivera, and Nelson got elected to “be the adults in the room”? What have we had since then in #Seattle city council but bullying and bad governance? How is dropping last minute hugely consequential amendments on critical transit bills good leadership?

⚠️ June 7-8: Spokane Street low bridge closed ⚠️

Katie has officially collected more vouchers than any other candidate in the race! Keep sending them our way! WilsonForSeattle.com www.seattle.gov/democracyvou...

How can we actually make the rent go down? Let’s talk about it with Katie! WilsonForSeattle.com

seattle council: 'every neighborhood is unique!' it's weird how uniquely only white neighborhoods uniquely get to skip out of multifamily housing and growth in the city.

In case you need to know which Councilmembers to vote out, they’re the ones hiding from the public so they can lower the ethics rules that prevent them from voting to enrich themselves. And Sara Nelson not allowing opposing councilmembers, the ones still in the chamber, to speak?!? Unreal.

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Excited to be endorsed by @tech4housing.bsky.social WilsonForSeattle.com