42.50% - Home prices in Seattle are unacceptably high for working people — a city where only the wealthy can afford to stay is worse economically and socially, and that demands a policy response.
13.75% - If you want to live in the city, you should be able to — that requires enough supply at enough price points that it isn't reserved for those who got there first.
11.25% - Every unit built in dense urban areas is several acres of suburban sprawl that didn't have to happen — cities absorbing growth protects forests and rural character.
11.25% - Government should eliminate poverty among the populace.
11.25% - Too many struggle to meet immediate material needs while few have more money than they can spend in 10 lifetimes.
10.00% - A city that prices out working-class and middle-class people stops being a city in any meaningful sense — urban density is only valuable when it's inclusive.
Affordable housing is civic infrastructure essential to a functioning city.
40.00% - Home prices in Seattle are unacceptably high for working people — a city where only the wealthy can afford to stay is worse economically and socially, and that demands a policy response.
20.00% - Liberal cities should use their local power to deliver affordable housing.
16.21% - If you want to live in the city, you should be able to — that requires enough supply at enough price points that it isn't reserved for those who got there first.
7.59% - Every unit built in dense urban areas is several acres of suburban sprawl that didn't have to happen — cities absorbing growth protects forests and rural character.
6.21% - Concentrating population in cities is more efficient per capita in almost every measurable way — smart growth policy should make cities more appealing to live in.
25.00% - Affordable housing is civic infrastructure essential to a functioning city.
25.00% - A city without affordable housing for its essential workers has a structural problem, not just a social one.
25.00% - Adequate affordable housing is civic infrastructure, not a market outcome.
0.00% - There should be sufficient affordable housing that no one is priced out of a city.
50.00% - Affordable housing