Be:Seattle — Pledge to Support Seattle Tenants

Since Winter of 2016, I’ve been loudly advocating for climate-friendly cities, tenant rights, abundant housing and many other important issues on twitter @sharethecities. It has been a journey of deciding who I wanted to follow, support, promote, learn from, get mentored by, mentor, where and when to publish, grassroots vs…

Statement to Port Of Seattle January 7, 2020 Hello. My name is Laura and I’m part of an equitable land use organizing collective in Seattle called Share The Cities with about 40 active members. I’m a renter just south of the Ballard bridge, a community gardener and former middle school…

Dear Councilmember Andrew J. Lewis, Thanks for being my representative at city hall! I’ll be following up in the coming months on topics that I’m most interested in: Police accountability, especially to BIPOC & immigrant communities Residential Green Gentle Infill (rezones, end apartment bans) Seattle for a Green New Deal…

Who Should Seattle’s District Council Candidates Listen To? It is unfathomable to me why Alex Pedersen, District 4 City Council candidate, is missing event after event that would deepen and broaden his understanding of critical issues facing Seattle. …

When I decided to switch my focus to large land parcels on the light rail spine in Seattle, WA I somehow got interested in large land parcels everywhere. The Mercer Mega Block discussion sucked me in… and then came the Interbay Armory. There are a whole bunch of folks who…

Check out the thread I wrote for Share The Cities on twitter:

Have you read Shaun Scott’s epic golf course twitter thread? I’ve included a couple of highlights below. …. & please send me any articles, studies, podcasts or videos on the topic of (public or private) golf courses and affordable housing. Here are my key takeaways from Shaun Scott’s tweets: …

District 4 was my home for the last 10 years. I’m feeling nostalgic about walking to the best lunch buffet at Araya’s Place, or taking a weekend stroll to bird watch at the Center for Urban Horticulture, or helping restore wetlands at Magnuson Park, or having eagles swoop overhead in…

Washington State doesn’t have an income tax. We don’t have pots of money for important things like properly funding education. We don’t have enough money to build housing for people that are paid too little at their jobs or who do not have any income or wealth. I believe people…