Katie Wilson's Talent for Postponing Hard Decisions
About 46,000 Seattle renter households spend more than half their income on housing. New housing permits are down 60% from a typical pre-pandemic year. Mayor Katie Wilson knows all this — she ran for mayor on it, and her own executive order lays it out in alarming detail. Her response? A task force. Final recommendations due September 2027.
Charlie Harger on why the housing pipeline collapsed, why the state legislature is moving in inches while Seattle moves in studies, and the pattern forming at the mayor's office when the easy part is identifying the problem and the hard part is making a call.
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