This guy can't even figure out the essential elements of his campaign platform? He should fit right in on the Seattle City Council, he'd be great a holding off on doing anything until additional studies of our homelessness crisis are completed.

Its just great! Yet another dip shit not coming to turms with homelessness. Homelessness is no driven by the lack of housing. We have plenty of options, it's the fact that the homeless are on dope. They don't want the help, or desire to get clean. Money should be used to jail, and force adicts into treatment. This dude is probably a defund the police departments supporter as well.

The race for democracy vouchers/dollars begins!

@7, that you think these wages ($130k/yr, a little more than median household income) are subpar tells me more about you than the folks running for office. Let me introduce you to some even poorer WA state legislators…($59k/yr)

I'm so sick and tired of the upzoning and urbanism malarkey. These are the people who think you can just play SimCity or Cities:Skylines with an actual city where people have lived for decades. Oh just hit the upzone button and plant a twenty-story apartment building full of affordable housing next to Volunteer Park. If anyone in the neighborhood complains, just call them NIMBYs and whip out your stash of dank NIMBY memes. This is this a cancerous personality type that's devouring more and more people in our city every day.

Reality, of course, is always more complicated. It's not just an issue of a small, quiet neighborhood not wanting the homeless megaplex dumped on their doorstep. The civil infrastructure simply is not there to support such "ambitious" projects. We've spent two years and counting enduring tremendous disruption and chaos on Madison just to make minor civil infrastructure improvements. Imagine what it would take to turn a neighborhood like Magnolia into the massive 4-over-1 affordable housing paradise these "urbanists" envision. It's just not feasible. Even if you ignore the fact that everyone there hates the idea.

And of course, as many others have pointed out, this will not solve homelessness. It will not even make a dent in homelessness. These people are mentally ill, drug addicts, lifestyle vagrants, many are hardened criminals with rap sheets a mile long. Putting a roof over their heads won't change any of that. They will just destroy whatever building you give them and end up back on the street. That's what we've seen up and down Aurora. This city has hundreds of hobo fires every week. Do you think they'll just stop setting their homes on fire if you put them in affordable housing? You're wrong: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/murder-arson-assault-charges-filed-against-suspect-in-deadly-aurora-avenue-fire/

I'm just so damn exhausted of the politicians and voters in this city being stuck on this dumb, flawed idea for solving homelessness. It will not solve homelessness, and even if it would, it's simply not ever going to happen. But they keep using this as a deflection mechanism to avoid having to have an actual plan for homelessness. And the idiot voters just keep lapping it up!

@7 that's my fear as well. I'd also add the city will no doubt be facing declining revenues over the next few years as the shift away from a central business core plays out so anyone taking on the council gig is going into a stiff headwind that will be wrought with big problems and limited resources. Not exactly the environment for anyone who has ambitions beyond the SCC which is probably why Mosqueda is looking to bail now as well. It's not exactly a dream job right now.

@11: ‘The civil infrastructure simply is not there to support such "ambitious" projects.‘

Nor will it be. As you probably don’t need me to tell you, there is currently no plan — zero, zip, zilch, nada — to build grade-separated mass transit which reaches into single-family home (SFH) neighborhoods. Increasing the density of those neighborhoods would simply create a traffic catastrophe waiting to happen.

Not that it would happen soon, as trading today’s SFH for tomorrow’s multi-family dwelling would take years. Each SFH neighborhood would see a very slow increase in density, as some families will sell to redevelopers and some won’t. Seattle could upzone the entire city to 110 residential stories and there wouldn’t be a measurable change in density for years (if not decades). Meanwhile, there’s plenty of room in Belltown, and along the MLK Link route, for tens of thousands of new housing units. But there’s no class-warfare vibe in that, so the Sawantists here couldn’t possibly care less.

@9: You should file for the D2 seat. I’m sure your speeches denouncing old racist Asians will be sure-fire vote-getters.