22.00% - Affordable housing is infrastructure — a city that prices out nurses, teachers, and construction workers has a serious functional problem, not just a social one.
12.00% - The housing crisis is a supply problem — build more housing; don't restrict it or regulate it into unaffordability.
11.00% - Gentrification replaces affordable units with premium ones — even when total unit count stays flat, the mix shifts against lower-income residents; volume matters, but so does affordability distribution.
11.00% - Duplexes, triplexes, townhouses, and mid-rise apartments should be the baseline across Seattle — upzoning as the default, let the market build what people need.
9.00% - Luxury buildings draw high earners out of older stock, freeing those units for middle-income renters — filtering works directionally even if it's not perfect.
9.00% - Government should eliminate poverty among the populace.
9.00% - “Cancel Culture” is merely criticism someone does not support.
9.00% - Too many struggle to meet immediate material needs while few have more money than they can spend in 10 lifetimes.
8.00% - More units of any type — luxury or workforce — add to the overall housing stock and soften prices region-wide. It works slowly and imperfectly, but that's how supply-side dynamics function.
Home prices in Seattle are unacceptably high for working people.
56.82% - Affordable housing is infrastructure — a city that prices out nurses, teachers, and construction workers has a serious functional problem, not just a social one.
25.00% - Gentrification replaces affordable units with premium ones — even when total unit count stays flat, the mix shifts against lower-income residents; volume matters, but so does affordability distribution.
6.82% - Seattle's desirability — tech, outdoor culture, food scene — is exactly what makes the housing problem so stubborn and urgent.
6.82% - The housing crisis is a supply problem — build more housing; don't restrict it or regulate it into unaffordability.
4.55% - A city that prices out working-class and middle-class people stops being a city in any meaningful sense — urban density is only valuable when it's inclusive.
25.00% - Home prices in Seattle are unacceptably high for working people.
25.00% - A city that only the wealthy can afford to live in is failing both economically and socially.
25.00% - Home prices have reached levels that exclude working people from the cities they sustain.
0.00% - Home prices are unacceptably high.
50.00% - Seattle Police Department
