News Oct 15, 2024 at 9:00 am

The Mayor Rips Up the Social Safety Net but Readies the Broom to Sweep Away Anyone Who Falls Through

The mayor's budget proposal is a recipe for making people poorer and more housing-insecure. Anthony Keo

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1

Sweep, Sweep, Sweep.
Plenty of free land under the sea, go have at it.
Goodbye to bad rubbish.
We won't miss you.
Make Seattle Great Again.

2

The Stranger:

"the mayor defunds affordable housing"

Also the Stranger:

"he [Mayor Harrell] increased the total investment [in the Office of Housing" by 2.5% between 2024 and 2025 and 2.69% between 2024 and 2026."

This is not a publication you can take seriously. This is Gateway Pundit level "reporting."

3

We could add thousands of units by simply following the lead of places like New York, Palm Springs, etc. by cracking down on short term rentals (Airbnb, VRBO, etc.). Short term rentals exacerbate the commodification of housing - Seattle should say no to Tech making our housing problem worse.

4

@3 Especially Hannah. If she's using these clips to ever try and get a serious job in journalism... well, good luck with that!

Also, this: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/seattle-encampments-being-cut-by-two-thirds-seems-like-a-big-deal/

5

What is not noted in this is that the JumpStart tax is bringing in far more than was originally forecasted when it was passed. Originally it was forecasted to bring in $227M and this year that number is well over $400M so the mayor is honoring the original forecast and using the surplus to plug holes in the budget. Hardly some draconian act that The Stranger is trying to portray.

@3 hate to break it to you but NY ban did nothing for housing affordability. The only thing that has happened is hotel rates have increased dramatically

https://medium.com/chamber-of-progress/new-nyc-data-shows-that-airbnb-restrictions-arent-solving-housing-crunch-b835803d0040

6

If “leveling the playing field” with respect to evictions means that units get taken off the market, does the Stranger consider that good policy?

7

Housing for the WORKING class? Yes!! Warehousing America's recalcitrant druggies? Hell no! The mayor is doing a fine job and going further in helping the homeless than most every mayor operating in the real world.

8

When the question is what to do about repeat criminal offenders who offend because of mental conditions, including drug addiction, the Stranger says imprisoning those offenders is a complete waste of public money, unless we combine it with mental health care.

When the question is housing, the Stranger never mentions mental conditions, including drug addiction, but instead says all such persons can indeed become permanently housed, without combining housing with mental health care.

The large overlap between these populations means nothing to the Stranger, just as the hundreds of homeless deaths from drug overdoses annually in Seattle merits not one mention in the Stranger.

9

I have to admire you folks that can actually read through these articles. I don't even look at the articles unless someone says something interesting in the comments. Once you've read The Stranger for a month or so, you've read everything as it all repeats itself.

10

"Garrow noted that every year employers steal a stunning $15 billion from workers in the United States. According to the Economic Opportunity Institute, the total value of property stolen through robberies, burglaries, and carjackings adds up to less than 4 percent of what bosses steal from their workers each year."

yeah
well it's
White Collar
fucking Crime
and nowhere Near
as gratifying to condemn
than ALL THE VIOLENCE THAT'S
TAKEN OVER AMERICA. you can even
ask the donold, he'll tell ya! it's War on America!

and tfg's the Only One
who can FIX it -- if
only he weren't
Melting Down

like a bad witch
doused with
H2Oh! see:

Letters From An American:

After Trump’s bizarre performance last night in Oaks, Pennsylvania, when he stopped taking questions and just swayed to his self-curated playlist for 39 minutes, his campaign this morning canceled a scheduled interview with CNBC’s Squawk Box, according to co-host of the show Joe Kernen.

The campaign did not, though, cancel a scheduled live interview today with Bloomberg News and the Economic Club of Chicago. That interview echoed last night’s train wreck.

Trump showed up almost an hour late to the event with moderator John Micklethwait, editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News. When he arrived, things went downhill fast.

Micklethwait asked real questions about Trump’s approach to the economy, but the former president answered with aimless rants and campaign slogans that Micklethwait corrected, repeatedly redirecting Trump back to his actual questions. Trump quickly grew angry and combative.

When Micklethwait corrected Trump’s misunderstanding of the way tariffs work, Trump replied in front of a room full of people who understand the economy: “It must be hard for you to, you know, spend 25 years talking about tariffs as being negative and then have somebody explain to you that you're totally wrong.”

Referring to analysis that his plans would explode the national debt, including analysis by the Wall Street Journal—hardly a left-wing outlet, as Mickelthwait pointed out—Trump replied: “What does the Wall Street Journal know?

They’ve been wrong about everything. So have you, by the way….. You’ve been wrong about everything…. You’ve been wrong all your life on this stuff.”

--Historian Heather Cox Richardson; October 15, 2024

oodles more,
Damningly for donold:
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-15-2024

he'll be Lucky
if he can Make it
til even 11/5 but with
the neocons here, he just might

11

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/at-seattle-rally-sawant-says-harris-deserves-to-lose-1000-times/


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