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Seattle Displacement Coalition

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2011

    Seattle Housing Authority Creates Its First New Public Housing in Years

    ​Locally, the Seattle Housing Authority gets beat up a lot. The agency is forever facing accusations that it is gentrifying its facilities. A group of homeowners at the agency's first spruced-up development, NewHolly, sued a few years back over alleged defects in construction and management. M ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2010

    Hawaii Lawmakers Want to Fly Homeless Man Back to Seattle

    ​Gregory Reese flew to Hawaii because he said he had job offers in construction and at a gym. But those gigs fell through. And with his father struggling with finances and lung cancer, the 39-year-old could no longer afford a ticket back to Seattle. Now two Hawaiian state legislators want to ... More >>

  • News

    September 30, 2009

    Tim Burgess Versus the Panhandlers

    The Constitution may be the latter’s greatest defender.

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2009

    Transit-Oriented Development Bill Gets Committee Vote This Morning, Seattle Hearing Tonight

    A modified version of House Bill 1490, the hotly disputed bill that would provide affordable housing protections and require minimum density zoning around some transit stations, will get a vote in the House Committee on Local Government & Housing at 8 AM this morning (watch the action live on TV-W). ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2009

    Density Brouhaha Brewing

    Now that the debate over whether to build rail is settled, the big debates will be about land use near rail stations. We're investing billions in these shiny people-movers, so we want to make sure they're put to use. Cue House Bill 1490, "Reducing greenhouse gas emissions through land use and tran ... More >>

  • News

    March 7, 2007

    Rich Man, Poor Man

    Taking their cues from San Francisco, both sides of the condo conversion debate say they're looking out for Joe Six-Pack.

  • News

    January 18, 2006

    Vulcan's Inside Track

    The mayor's office has given Paul Allen's company early looks at financial and other information related to the South Lake Union streetcar line—ahead of other affected property owners.

  • News

    December 21, 2005

    The Future of the U District

    The mayor's office has given Paul Allen's company early looks at financial and other information related to the South Lake Union streetcar line—ahead of other affected property owners.

  • News

    July 13, 2005

    Rich House, Poor House

    NewHolly, Southeast Seattle's experimental public-housing development, proves attractive to middle-class and low-income families alike.

  • News

    June 23, 2004

    The Billion-Dollar Neighborhood

    The mayor wants the public to pay for more than just infrastructure improvements in South Lake Union, and a 'public-interest' coalition is giving him cover. By George Howland Jr.

  • News

    December 3, 2003

    Letters to the Editor

    I think the quality of life interests who arent confirmed slackers are living a pre-bubble-burst pipe dream. . . .

  • News

    October 29, 2003

    Want Wards? Move to N.Y.

    Seattle's elected-at-large City Council ain't broke.

  • News

    October 15, 2003

    Letters to the Editor

    I, too, lament the necessary loss of the King County Library Systems used-book sales. . . . I also miss grade school, my first apartment, and my 84 Honda. . . .

  • News

    September 3, 2003

    City Hall, Media, and the Drug War

    I, too, lament the necessary loss of the King County Library Systems used-book sales. . . . I also miss grade school, my first apartment, and my 84 Honda. . . .

  • News

    August 27, 2003

    Vulcan Mind Meld

    How one of the richest men in the world lobbies the Seattle City Council.

  • News

    April 2, 2003

    Home Turf

    How one of the richest men in the world lobbies the Seattle City Council.

  • News

    March 5, 2003

    TIF'ed Off

    Is tax increment financing corporate welfare, or a boost for poor neighborhoods?

  • News

    January 1, 2003

    Buzz

    Is tax increment financing corporate welfare, or a boost for poor neighborhoods?

  • News

    December 25, 2002

    Buzz

    Is tax increment financing corporate welfare, or a boost for poor neighborhoods?

  • News

    November 27, 2002

    Buzz

    Is tax increment financing corporate welfare, or a boost for poor neighborhoods?

  • News

    October 16, 2002

    Buzz

    Is tax increment financing corporate welfare, or a boost for poor neighborhoods?

  • News

    September 4, 2002

    Buzz

    Is tax increment financing corporate welfare, or a boost for poor neighborhoods?

  • News

    July 31, 2002

    Turning a Corner

    Can the Hahn Building be saved?

  • News

    November 7, 2001

    News Clips— Parking nearby

    Can the Hahn Building be saved?

  • News

    August 22, 2001

    News Clips— New vista?

    Can the Hahn Building be saved?

  • News

    August 15, 2001

    News Clips— Rainier erupts

    Can the Hahn Building be saved?

  • News

    January 31, 2001

    News Clips— Photo of the Week

    Can the Hahn Building be saved?

  • News

    November 22, 2000

    Renters get stiffed

    Some of Judy Nicastro's big plans to help tenants are being shot down.

  • News

    October 4, 2000

    Death of a nobody

    Jimmy Mize died broke in the scuzzy Morrison Hotel. Maybe that's why no one is bothering to investigate.

  • News

    September 6, 2000

    The war zone

    Drugs and death haunt city-owned Morrison Hotel.

  • News

    May 31, 2000

    Vote due on Admiral garage

    Drugs and death haunt city-owned Morrison Hotel.

  • News

    March 29, 2000

    Steinbrueck donnybrook

    Activists feud with City Council member over housing issues.

  • News

    February 23, 2000

    New Radical Seattle

    Local activists hope to harness the momentum from the WTO to raise hell, smash corporate power, and have fun doing it.

  • News

    October 20, 1999

    Street fight brewing over civility laws

    Local activists hope to harness the momentum from the WTO to raise hell, smash corporate power, and have fun doing it.

  • News

    September 8, 1999

    "The nut-cakes you ought to be focusing on are the seven boobs who call themselves 'the Seattle School Board'. . . ."

    Local activists hope to harness the momentum from the WTO to raise hell, smash corporate power, and have fun doing it.

  • News

    September 8, 1999

    Housing heroes?

    The search for the six-million-dollar housing candidate.

  • News

    September 1, 1999

    Tough school

    Colorful school board race.

  • News

    June 23, 1999

    Thinning blue line

    Charges of racism, illegal tapings, and another resignation add to SPD's woes.

  • News

    April 28, 1999

    SMASH SEATTLE!

    Where and how to mount the barricades.

  • News

    March 10, 1999

    Prickly Holly

    Activists charge conflict of interest in the most expensive public housing project in Seattle's history.

  • News

    January 13, 1999

    Whale tales

    Activists charge conflict of interest in the most expensive public housing project in Seattle's history.

  • News

    January 6, 1999

    Year of the council

    Activists charge conflict of interest in the most expensive public housing project in Seattle's history.

  • News

    December 2, 1998

    SHA-na-na

    It's the same old song at the Seattle Housing Authority, but to a new and more troubled beat.

  • News

    July 1, 1998

    Debate turns in tents

    Advocates and the City Council go head-to-head over tent cities.

  • News

    June 24, 1998

    Domestic partners

    Senior residents attack the Housing Authority again, this time for trying to take on private investors.

  • News

    June 10, 1998

    Urban removal 2

    Requiem for Roxbury Village

  • News

    June 10, 1998

    The Black Hole of Holly Park

    First the Seattle Housing Authority eliminated hundreds of low-income units in Holly Park. Now it's spending millions more than expected on that renovation. And, as Mark Worth recounts, it's got the same sort of plans for White Center.

  • News

    March 18, 1998

    Home improvements

    Mayor Schell's modest housing agenda: many small tweaks and a boost to the market.

  • News

    January 21, 1998

    Going down at the Crossroads

    Why is the federal housing department sponsoring Eastside gentrification and displacement?

  • News

    January 21, 1998

    Emergency shelter

    Who's homeless now?

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