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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(115,283 posts) Wed Mar 20, 2024, 01:57 PM Mar 2024

City of Seattle funding fewer new affordable housing projects this year

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City of Seattle funding fewer new affordable housing projects this year (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2024 OP

I was just downtown at the Convention Center. pfitz59 Mar 2024 #1

pfitz59

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1. I was just downtown at the Convention Center.

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Wed Mar 20, 2024, 05:20 PM

Mar 2024

It's surrounded by huge apartments advertising available units. Several huge buildings gong up. I checked online. Smallest units start at around $3000/month. Time to institute a 'vacancy tax' on unrented apartments. Force the f-ing equity firm owners to lower the price.

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