We’re at an inflection point in our city and our region. Voters are feeling a warranted frustration with the status quo.

Hannah Sabio-Howell is, like me, a renter in the 43rd, where three in four residents now rent their homes. She’s built her career organizing for stronger labor standards and workers’ rights. I know she’ll be an effective and energetic…

He’s equally at home deep-diving into housing policy and knocking on the doors of actual houses to hear from his neighbors about their lives and concerns.

We have twice as many homeless people in Seattle as we do shelter beds.

We can’t keep moving people from place to place, and calling that progress.

The single most important thing we can do to address our city’s homelessness crisis is to rapidly expand emergency housing and shelter with supportive services.

The working people of our city are tired. They are ready for something new, something more hopeful and just and equitable.

I think that there are a lot of similar forces at work right now.

People are looking at a certain style of kind of old school Democratic Party politics as having utterly failed to stop that train wreck.