Show threadAlice Dubiel 🔬💉🦠😷🌬☮️Feb 15
I’m a firm supporter of community housing models and was encouraged when council members Morales and Mosqueda visited Vienna and Nordic cities to observe and discuss housing with local officials and organizations, pre-pandemic. The real estate industry’s reliance on capitalist models here depends on boom and bust, prioritizes profits, exacerbating housing inequality, subverting community in elections. Media controlled backlash set us back, obscured visions.
#communityhousing #SeattleCouncil
Alice Dubiel 🔬💉🦠😷🌬☮️Feb 15

Erica C Barnett has been critical of Housing Our Neighbors proposals in the past and offers perspectives on potential Seattle Council misdirections on the community housing funding. The previous council’s move of Jump Start funds from small business and other pandemic relief to the general fund is a painful lesson in the ways reactionary Seattle subverts progressive solutions. Current budget deficits are looming.
#communityhousing #SeattleCouncil

https://open.substack.com/pub/ericacbarnett/p/tax-for-social-housing-brought-in?r=ct3l&utm_medium=ios

Tax For Social Housing Brought In Twice the Original Estimate, Mirroring Early JumpStart Results

With $115 million (almost) in hand, the social housing developer says it's ready to start buying up apartments.

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Alice Dubiel 🔬💉🦠😷🌬☮️Aug 16, 2025
No wonder Katie Wilson is over ten percentage points ahead of Bruce Harrell: people here don’t want surveillance state but housing, childcare, wage fairness and transportation. Instead, what do we get from the Seattle Council? More cctv in Seattle, less accountability for police.
#Seattle #SeattleCouncil #SeattleMayor #privacy #camerasurveillance
https://open.substack.com/pub/ericacbarnett/p/mayoral-challenger-katie-wilson-closes?r=ct3l&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
Mayoral Challenger Katie Wilson Closes In on 51 Percent; Council Moves to Expand Police Camera Surveillance

Today's Morning Fizz.

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Alice Dubiel 🔬💉🦠😷🌬☮️Jul 30, 2025
Glad the council managed to seat housing committee members at last and set guidelines for ts behavior around public commentary.
#Seattle #SeattleCouncil #HousingCommittee
https://open.substack.com/pub/ericacbarnett/p/council-finally-seats-renters-commission?r=ct3l&utm_medium=ios
Council Finally Seats Renters Commission, New Council Rules Allow Longer Public Comments

Today's City Council-focused Afternoon Fizz.

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Alice Dubiel 🔬💉🦠😷🌬☮️Jul 25, 2025
Arrogant incompetence of Saka and Nelson show their trust there will be no reckoning for their failure to face committee responsibilities. The powers supporting them have no interest in moving forward with any active housing solutions, making one wonder whether even Harrell’s efforts are cover for “no plan.” Disingenuous politics not to face public and nominees.
#Seattle #seattlecouncil #housing
https://open.substack.com/pub/ericacbarnett/p/renters-commission-appointments-thwarted?r=ct3l&utm_medium=ios
Renters Commission Appointments Thwarted by Saka and Nelson's Last-Minute Absence from Their Own Committee

Saka was reportedly in his office during the meeting. Nelson's whereabouts remain unknown.

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Alice Dubiel 🔬💉🦠😷🌬☮️Jul 22, 2025
Seattle Council members again point out how they are incapable of understanding how government funding works in our city. Incompetence demands crisis management raiding of cooky jar funds to appear they know what they’re doing. Only council member Rinck has put forth a sensible proposal in “Seattle Shield” to protect city services funding, yet they want to throw those resources in the general fund.
#SeattleCouncil #SeattleShield #generalfund #MaritzaRivera
https://open.substack.com/pub/ericacbarnett/p/council-broaches-using-housing-levy?r=ct3l&utm_medium=ios
Council Broaches Using Housing Levy, Proposed "Seattle Shield" Tax Funds to Backfill General Fund Shortfall

By Erica C.

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Alice Dubiel 🔬💉🦠😷🌬☮️Jun 3, 2025

Cathy Moore quits Seattle Council. She wants to dish out the venom, but can’t tolerate scrutiny and oversight from discontented constituents.
#SeattleCouncil #CathyMoore #KOMOnews #corruption

https://open.substack.com/pub/ericacbarnett/p/cathy-moore-will-step-down-after?r=ct3l&utm_medium=ios

Cathy Moore Will Step Down After a Year and a Half On Council

Sources say Moore was fed up with the job, which requires enduring sometimes intense public criticism.

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Alice Dubiel 🔬💉🦠😷🌬☮️May 31, 2025

There is still time to write to the council expressing opposition to this corruption. And definitely time to vote these people out of office.

“…the bill would have allowed the council's two landlords, Mark Solomon and Maritza Rivera, to vote on an upcoming Moore bill to roll back eviction protections passed by the previous council.”

#landlords #SeattleCouncil #CathyMoore

https://open.substack.com/pub/ericacbarnett/p/amid-waning-council-support-cathy?r=ct3l&utm_medium=ios

Amid Waning Council Support, Cathy Moore Withdraws Bill to Lower Ethics Standards

Moore's bill was widely unpopular with the public, and it was unclear that she had the votes to pass it.

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Alice Dubiel 🔬💉🦠😷🌬☮️May 25, 2025

We have the worst city council these days. Inexperienced and incompetent. Here’s what the backlash to the protests against the murder of George Floyd looks like. Rule of landlords. Opportunists.
#ethics #SeattleCouncil #backlash

https://open.substack.com/pub/ericacbarnett/p/council-committee-approves-bill-lowering?r=ct3l&utm_medium=ios

Council Committee Approves Bill Lowering Council Ethics Standards

The proposal, if it passes, will allow council members to vote on legislation even when they have a direct financial conflict of interest.

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Alice Dubiel 🔬💉🦠😷🌬☮️Apr 20, 2025
I get more information about what and why budgets in Seattle Council and Washington Legislature are failing in 5 minutes reading the South Seattle Emerald than I do in weeks from the Seattle Times.
#budgetfail #jumpstart #WashingtonStateLegislature #SeattleCouncil #DontMakeMyCityAThemePark
https://southseattleemerald.org/voices/2025/04/16/everything-is-political-in-south-seattle-new-candidate-big-deficit
Everything Is Political … in South Seattle: New Candidate, Big Deficit

In his latest column, Tobias Coughlin-Bogue takes a look at a range of political news and issues facing South End neighborhoods. This week, South Seattle voters are facing a decision on a levy renewal that would extend a property tax funding the Automated Fingerprint Imaging System (AFIS) for another seven years. Meanwhile, union representative Jamie Fackler has announced his candidacy for the Seattle City Council's District 2 seat, aiming to tackle housing, road safety, and the fentanyl crisis. Additionally, a new bill regulating after-hours clubs has passed, and the city is grappling with a worsening budget deficit.

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