Mayor Murray announced in July that he wants to cut the city’s ties to neighborhood councils. ISTOCK
The last time Mayor Ed Murray faced a backlash from Seattle’s “not in my backyard” (NIMBY) homeowners—and from the Seattle Times, which acted as their de facto megaphone—he swiftly capitulated.
It took one week.
Facing the worst housing affordability crisis in Seattle since World War II—a crisis that manifests every day in surging rents for tenants, rising numbers of people made homeless or displaced out of the city, and racial segregation—Murray lost his spine and retreated from his own housing committee’s call for greater density in the city’s single-family neighborhoods…
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