The $290 million housing levy would build or save 2,150 units of affordable housing in Seattle, according to the mayor's office. Credit: STEVE ESTVANIK/SHUTTERSTOCK

The $290 million housing levy would build or save 2,150 units of affordable housing in Seattle, according to the mayors office.

The $290 million housing levy would build or save 2,150 units of affordable housing in Seattle, according to the mayor’s office. STEVE ESTVANIK/SHUTTERSTOCK

Nobody is against this levy. No, we mean it. There’s no “No” campaign. The person who showed up at the SECB to argue against it identified herself as “just a homeowner” and claimed both that property taxes are too high and that the city should make this levy bigger. (She also wore perhaps the hugest rock on her finger the SECB has ever seen.) Okay, lady.

So this thing better fucking pass. Proposition 1 is a renewal of the last housing levy passed in 2009, but, in a reflection of the current housing crisis, it’s double the size. The $290 million levy would build or save 2,150 units of affordable housing…

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