| “Poverty wages and income inequality are driving our city’s affordable housing crisis: the most common reasons people in our community lose their housing are because they lose their jobs, they can’t make the rent, or their employers just don’t pay them enough to support themselves.
But instead of stepping up and doing their part to address a housing crisis they helped create, some of the largest corporations and richest humans in the world have invested big money to mislead voters about Seattle’s progressive business tax.
They’ve formed an alliance with extremists. They’ve made clear they have the resources to bankroll many more months of nastiness. And they seem willing to pick a vicious and unnecessary fight with poor people and with the people who work to provide housing, services, and jobs.
This is not the Seattle we call home.
Instead of turning our city’s future over to the loudest, richest, and ugliest voices, let’s return the conversation to the broad consensus we know is out there for a compassionate approach to invest in our housing crisis. Let’s find solutions that ensure people who work in our city can afford to live here, too; that life-saving services are available to those in need; and that big businesses do their part — just like workers, homeowners, renters, and consumers do.” |
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