The City and County launched a forensic evaluation into the KCRHA in August 2025 in response to ongoing operational and financial issues at the agency, including leadership turnover, delayed payments, State Auditor findings, unverified accounting of cash advances, persistent cash flow challenges, and overspending on administrative resources. The City of… [ Keep reading ]
City Council today voted to pass two key pieces of legislation which will help Mayor Katie B. Wilson continue to make rapid progress to expand shelter with wrap-around services across the city. “I am more hopeful than ever that we can actually make tangible progress on homelessness and bring people… [ Keep reading ]
Mayor Wilson will host a community briefing on shelter expansion on Wednesday, April 8 at 6:00 PM in the Bertha Knight Landes Room at City Hall. Join for an evening bringing together community members and partners as the Mayor shares progress to date and outlines next steps as we continue… [ Keep reading ]
Mayor Katie B. Wilson announced bold steps to meet the scale of Seattle’s housing crisis by combining and accelerating the next phases of Seattle’s Comprehensive Plan. What had been a multi-year process could now be complete as soon as 2027, rapidly accelerating the ability to build more housing near transit,… [ Keep reading ]
Rental junk fees are making it harder to afford life in Seattle. They add costs people didn’t choose and can’t plan for — pushing rent even further out of reach. Rent is already high enough. We’re taking this on.
Mayor Katie B. Wilson joined with community leaders, neighbors, and service providers at the Hope Factory in SoDo today to announce citywide, all-hands-on-deck effort to rapidly expand shelter across Seattle and start bringing people inside. The mayor announced she is transmitting a package of new legislation to City Council which will accelerate her efforts to open 1,000 new units of shelter and emergency housing with wrap-around services to… [ Keep reading ]
Mayor Katie B. Wilson today signed CB 121093 and CB 121135, legislation sponsored by Councilmember Eddie Lin (District 2) which will speed the production of housing and shelter by removing unnecessarily regulatory barriers and expediting permitting. These ordinances could accelerate development timelines by as much as five to twelve months, including for the 1,000 units of emergency housing the mayor is… [ Keep reading ]
SEATTLE – Today, the Seattle City Council unanimously approved the Interlocal Agreement between City of Seattle and the Seattle Social Housing Developer (SSHD), which will transfer approximately $115 million in funds this year to acquire and build permanently affordable and publicly owned housing for hundreds of working Seattleites. “Housing is far too… [ Keep reading ]
Last month, I visited an encampment in Ballard that was scheduled to be cleared. After hearing from concerned community members, I decided to extend the timeline to clear the site because I thought that better outcomes were possible for the people living there, their neighbors, and local businesses. The conversations… [ Keep reading ]
Mayor Katie B. Wilson announced the launch of Seattle Renter’s Survey, a key step in addressing affordable rental housing. In a video statement, Mayor Wilson said that while her administration works to make housing more affordable, renters across the city need to keep organizing and speaking out. The deadline for responses has… [ Keep reading ]
