The guide is intended to supplement Seattle Solidarity Budget's CTA: tinyurl.com/sb-actions

Hope to you there!

Be:Seattle may not survive another year. We have put together a guide to giving public comment focused on tenant services: beseattle.org/10-07. Please testify in support! The virtual hearing will begin at 1pm and the in-person hearing will begin at 5pm at Seattle City Hall.

Last year's nearly 40% cut to tenant services decimated access to legal aid and eliminated educational and support services for thousands of renters. Eviction filings are at record highs, labor costs continue to rise, and the ten organizations tenant services are stretched far beyond capacity.

Tell Rob Saka and the other councilmembers to ACTUALLY show up for renters!

Today's your chance to get your photo taken with the famous puppets of @theseattlechannel.bsky.social! Seattle Solidarity Budget will be hosting a photo booth at City Hall at about 4pm ahead of the 5pm budget hearing!

The City Council’s Budget Process has begun, and we want to hear from you!

Committee Meetings with Oral Public Comment
September 25 - 9:30 a.m.
October 8 - 2 p.m.
October 15 - 9:30 a.m.
October 28 - 9:30 a.m.
November 14 - 9:30 a.m.
November 21 - 9:30 a.m.

Last year Harrell cut the City's tenant services by 40%, and those cuts remain in this new proposed budget. While I'm happy to see more rental assistance, tenant services are important to fully fund, especially with more than 50% of the city being renters.

This kind of rhetoric sure hits differently during Trump's second administration, something these councilmembers don't appear particularly attuned to. Saying you'll fight against the Trump administration while attacking the equitable development initiative is some real cognitive dissonance.

“These are life and death requests"

Mayor Harrell released his proposed budget today. This budget maintains the same level of funding for tenant services as last year, a 40% cut from 2024, despite evictions reaching record highs.

I wrote a rant that addresses EVERY Seattle anti-housing "tree advocate" talking point I have ever seen.

It's long but honestly not THAT long lol. I will be very, VERY happy if 5 people read it.

Come be one of them :)

blog.moreparksmoreneighbors.org/page/anti-ho...

Urgent!

As part of Solidarity Budget's values of collective care and shared responsibility, we expect that all event participants who are able to mask will do so whenever in close proximity to other participants, especially when engaging in the tabling and discussion portions of the event.

Join us Wed. for an evening of fun, food, & community with Seattle Solidarity Budget! A City's budget is reflective of its values. Last week, City Council voted to invest millions on dangerous surveillance. What could Seattle look like if the City invested in the things we need in order to thrive?

What do the Office of Civil Rights, Community Surveillance Working Group, Seattle Renters Commission, Community Police Commission, & over 60 community groups have in common?

All oppose the proposed expansion of CCTV & RTCC stopsurveillancecity.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/o...

tinyurl.com/stop-cctv

🚨ACTION ALERT🚨
City Council will be voting on expanding mass surveillance today at 2pm! Testify in opposition in person at City Hall or remotely. See tinyurl.com/stop-CCTV for more info and talking points

🚨Email [email protected] and tell them that you oppose this expansion!

NEW: Landlords are breaking the rent stabilization law and Attorney General Nick Brown is getting refunds. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/washing...

Mayor Harrell and the Seattle City Council defunded tenant services by 40% last year. We're barely hanging on by a thread, and as Kasey Burton from Tenant Law Center said about renters seeking legal assistance, "the need is bottomless."

Mayor Harrell and the Seattle City Council defunded tenant services by 40% last year. We're barely hanging on by a thread, and as Kasey Burton from Tenant Law Center said about renters seeking legal assistance, "the need is bottomless."

Even Sound Transit knows it's BS to have a gigantic effectively-private golf course served by *two* light rail stations. We should do what they printed and change "Jackson" Golf Course to be the Thornton Creek Natural Area Park, with uses everyone can enjoy.

@jp4all.bsky.social

Listening to public comment this morning before the B&O tax vote, and I'm really struck by how many people are working and volunteering in our city to help people and make it a better place.

Tax exemptions are not neutral, despite the way this council just passed them with virtually no discussion, and only a week after they were proposed. It's disingenuous to pretend they are, while simultaneously carping that a tax increase to offset those cuts should require weeks of discusison.

I'm sure others have reacted to this op/ed before me. But here's my 2 cents. There is no inhumanly monstrous substance that "robs you of your ability to help yourself," necessitating forced intervention for everyone who uses it. That's a myth. www.seattletimes.com/opinion/seat...

Business Tax Plan Moves Forward, Larded With New Exemptions and Spending Categories

The exemptions could lower revenues by more than $10 million, while the new spending categories, including transportation, go far beyond the original intent of the proposal.

publicola.com/2025/07/30/b...