The Sooner, the better

"We’re not asking for magic solutions to problems"

Yet you haven't proposed how to fund your ambitious goals. You need to find a way to pay for this, bearing in mind most of Seattle's revenue comes from regressive taxes.

"We continue to see failure as nothing changes in the rise of evictions . . . ."

This is disingenuous. Your links compare the rate of evictions during 2020-2012, a time period in which several overlapping eviction moratoria were in place, to late 2022, after such moratoria lapsed.

"We see the destructive nature of for-profit housing markets that are defined by corporate landlords who prey on us."

Take a closer look at eviction statistics. You'll see that the overwhelming majority of eviction proceedings involve tenants in municipal housing operated by city or county authorities. If you want to reduce evictions, start there.

Ah, youth.

I hate to break it to them, but before the U District had shiny new overpriced apartments it had decaying old overpriced housing. Usually old SFR's that had been chopped up into housing units.

Seattle is run on money. It always has been, ever since the Denny Party - as unscrupulous a bunch of people as ever existed - landed at Alki. The city's early years were spent fleecing speculators going to Alaska and its revenues were paid by prostitutes. There never was a utopian age in Seattle.

Oh hush, granpaw NoWokeZone.

I'd venture to guess that articles of this nature have been written every several years or so since the beginning of the printing press.

Pfffft.