“For every job that we create in Seattle, we must create an appropriate unit of housing to match it.”

This simple idea is central to Mike’s vision for the future of our city, and he’d love to hear what you think.  Join us this Friday, April 3, for the latest of our weekly get-togethers at O’Brien campaign headquarters.  We’ll discuss how this idea would impact our city and work on molding it into a concrete proposal.

Seattle is a big job center and it is expected to continue to grow, but if we keep adding jobs without the corresponding housing, and instead exacerbate the pattern of sprawl to house these workers, we are growing unsustainably and will ultimately fail. It is a pattern that violates our values of social equity, economic sustainability, and environmental responsibility.

Like many issues, housing is tricky and there is not a simple solution. This Friday, we’d like to start working through some of these issues with the ultimate goal of having some concrete policies we can enact. We will try to send around some reading material in advance. If any of you has good reading material on housing that you’d like to share, please forward it to us. It would be great if some folks were willing to summarize some housing material for the group. Let us know if you are interested. Finally, any examples you can share of success stories or failures that we can learn from would be great.

As always, snacks and beverages will be provided.

Friday, April 3

5-7PM

O’Brien Headquarters

604 N 45th St, Seattle