The Seattle City Council will be voting on expanding mass surveillance on Tue. 9/9 at 2pm. The Seattle Renters' Commission urges the council to reject this expansion and protect renters’ privacy, autonomy, and safety.

See the full statement from the Commission here: www.seattle.gov/documents/Bo...

Inbox: The items that should have gotten votes in yesterday's housing committee -- including 14 appointments to the city's renter's commission that Cathy Moore urged her former colleagues to delay -- will now get them in the full Seattle City Council meeting.

Ballots for the primary election are due August 5th 🙂

"The night before, however, former Councilmember Cathy Moore — who was the head of the housing committee before her recent resignation — sent an email to Solomon, Saka and Nelson, urging them to delay a vote on confirming commissioners, she said Wednesday."

"The two committee members boycotting Wednesday’s meeting also delayed a vote on accepting $30.7 million in federal grants from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Much of this was housing awards."

“It is councilmembers’ chartered responsibility to be at these meetings,” Rinck said. “This is literally our job. So I find it deeply frustrating that people took time to leave their jobs in the middle of the day, yet not every member of this committee could show up to do theirs.”

Post updated this morning with an email from Cathy Moore, who resigned from the council, to Councilmember Mark Solomon, trying to influence him not to move forward with renters' commission appointments that she preventing from moving forward for her entire 18-month term.

"The SRC has been sounding the alarm for over a year."

The Seattle City Council just passed a new renter protection that bans algorithmic rent pricing like RealPage

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The Seattle Renters Commission is firmly against the bill to change Seattle's Code of Ethics to allow elected officials to vote on issues when they have a financial conflict of interest if they disclose it beforehand. Disclosure is not accountability.

CM Moore has refused to meet with or make appointments to the Renters Commission the entire time she's been in office. Only one out of nine councilmembers is a renter and two are landlords. Acting like those with the most power and property don't have a voice at City Hall is an insult to renters

It's Election Day and it's especially important for renters to vote! The SRC endorses Prop 1A, which would create new revenue (est $50m/year) to fund social housing. Prop 1B actually diverts $10m/year of existing funds for affordable housing.

Find a ballot drop box: kingcounty.gov/en/dept/elec...

Please testify at tonight's public hearing! The draft Anti-Displacement Measures exclude tenant services & several existing renter protections. We issued a letter to the mayor & city council last year about how the comp plan needs to be strengthened to protect renters
www.seattle.gov/documents/De...

CM Hollingsworth has outlined the agenda for the public hearing on the comp plan on Wed. Feb. 5th. Each speaker will have two minutes.

5:00-7:30 PM: In-person public comment ONLY (childcare will be provided)

7:00 PM: Signup for online public comment will open

7:30 PM: Hybrid public comment begins

Hello, Bluesky! We're the Seattle Renters' Commission, a group appointed by the Mayor, City Council, and Commission to provide analysis and advice to the City of Seattle on issues affecting renters.