Tiffani McCoy is the executive director of House Our Neighbors and one of the managers of the Proposition 1A campaign.
In February, Seattle voters approved a ballot initiative to levy a tax on businesses to fund the construction of democratically governed social housing. Jacobin spoke with one of the campaign’s lead organizers about the measure.
We all know that the rents are too damn high and that our cities’ efforts at providing affordable housing have been failures. The reason they fail is because the “affordable housing” playbook does not consider housing as a public good.