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- Seattle Mayor and Council Think $1,115 a Month for Rent is Affordable Housing
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
  While the abundance of cranes on the Seattle skyline seems to indicate there remains some profitability in development, the Seattle City Council hesitated Tuesday to actually put some teeth behind infrastructure taxes on this period of growth: To some low-income-housing advocates, spending $1,115 a month to rent a studio apartment in Seattle does not sound affordable. Mayor Greg Nickels and the Seattle City Council say it is. The city defines an affordable place as costing no more than 30 percent of a household's income. Separately, the city now spends $40 million a year in voter-approved levy funds on low-income housing targeted at people who make below 50 percent of median income.
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- Local Nickels' son indicted with dozens in scheme to cheat casinos
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
  Huge Seattle story off the AP wire: Jacob Dyson Nickels, the son of Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels, has been indicted as part of an investigation into a multistate casino-cheating ring that allegedly stole millions of dollars by bribing casino employees to falsely shuffle decks.
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- Local Voters reject both viaduct options
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
  Although Seattle voters were denied the right to vote for a surface option, the fact that they voted down both Gregoire's and Nickel's ballot measures seems to indicate they want a surface street solution.
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- Two crashes caused 10-mile backup on I-90 this morning
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
  This is why Mayor Nickes' tunnel lite won't work ... one or two fender benders in the tunnels (and these are three lane tunnels) and you have a 10 mile backup during rush hour.
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- Viaduct fight: Could streets be the answer?
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
  Cary Moon, quoted in the article, an activist for tearing down the Viaduct has been largely shut out of the media spotlight by the Times thus far. She's be an advocating a third option for two years...but has been largely ignored. How come? And how come now the media doesn't raise the question of why this third ideas has been ignored?
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- Defiant Nickels promises to campaign hard for a tunnel
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
  Mayor Nickels has lost it. "Tear down this wall"? So you can dig a developer-giveaway tunnel? Might as well bury the new Sonics stadium in the tunnel too. Meanwhile, the Mayor of LA announces he's taking the city wireless ... now that's vision.
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- 'Renewal' not good for Rainier Valley
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  An excellent guest editorial in the Seattle PI today described an eminent domain plan I'd heard nothing about - and Mayor "I never met a developer I wouldn't kiss" Nickels is likely behind it. And of course I933 does nothing to stop this kind of Eminent Domain - vote no on 933: Last resort simply means if you're unwilling to sell, you're gone. Just as misleading, the city emphasizes the below-average incomes and above-average poverty and crime rates that exist in Rainier Valley to justify eminent domain. But that's a smoke screen because those problems have absolutely nothing to do with many of the properties the city wants to demolish. Moreover, the city has legitimate tools for dealing with crime and poverty. It can increase police presence or fund neighborhood watch programs. It can offer tax credits for small businesses.
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okami comments on:
Seattle Mayor and Council Think $1,115 a Month for Rent is Affordable Housing

sure. . .that’s about three times what i’m paying on my house. . .which takes up half my retirement. . .
affordable? not to people worse off than me.

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1:22 am 7/02/08
Jeff comments on:
Seattle Mayor and Council Think $1,115 a Month for Rent is Affordable Housing

Nickels may be a community leading green mayor but he’s also a developer’s mayor and paul allen’s mayor and a do-little mayor on transit.

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11:35 pm 7/01/08
lizsternberg comments on:
Seattle Mayor and Council Think $1,115 a Month for Rent is Affordable Housing

I was motivated to write to May Nickels in response to this. Here’s what I wrote to him:
"I do not believe $1115 in rent a month is "Affordable housing."

The fact that there are many well to do business people in Seattle should not put a shadow over the Childcare professionals, construction workers, educators, and Administrative Assistants who make less than 40K a year. If they had to pay $1115 a month it would most certainly be well over 30% of their income.

Are you trying to turn Seattle into an elitist community, or what?"

If you feel the same way, you should email important officials too.

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11:22 pm 7/01/08
Aisleace comments on:
Seattle Mayor and Council Think $1,115 a Month for Rent is Affordable Housing

I always heard that rent or housing shoud be 25% of your salary. That $1115 a month works out to a salary of $53520 a year. They must be rich in Seattle if low income singles (because it’s a studio apartment) are making over $53000 a year. Based on a 40 hour week that works out to $25.48/hour.

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9:36 pm 7/01/08
mymanjones comments on:
Seattle Mayor and Council Think $1,115 a Month for Rent is Affordable Housing

I live on Social Security only. My income is less than $900 a month. HUD gives we senior citizens a place to live at 30% of income after medical expenses. Try it sometime. Going to the bathroom on a regular basis is our form of joy.

Don Jones

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8:57 pm 7/01/08
newscloud2 comments on:
Seattle Mayor and Council Think $1,115 a Month for Rent is Affordable Housing

I think I heard someone call the crane the official bird of Seattle.
See http://www.crosscut.com/real-estate/12205/Skyline%2C 2008/

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5:11 pm 7/01/08
j1o2n3a4s5 comments on:
Seattle Mayor and Council Think $1,115 a Month for Rent is Affordable Housing

endentured housitude to the fascist bankers

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5:05 pm 7/01/08