Seattle's most immediate problems are affordable housing, homelessness, traffic congestion, and downtown office vacancies with reduced city tax revenue. But all of these immediate problems are worsened by our state's regressive taxation and our worsening climate challenges - including climate gentrification driving up housing prices, forcing longer commutes and causing homelessness, drought and extreme storms driving up food prices (here, here & here) and heat domes and wildfire smoke threatening health. To make Seattle more affordable for all, we must elect Seattle City Councilmembers who will address our immediate problems but who will also champion more progressive taxation and Seattle's climate goal, to cut the city's greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2030.  Based on our review of their priorities and interviews, we conclude that Maren Costa in District 1 (West Seattle, Georgetown ...), Alex Hudson in District 3 (Capitol Hill), Ron Davis in District 4 (UDistrict, Wallingford, View Ridge ...) and Nilu Jenks in District 5 (North Seattle) meet these criteria. 

We should also re-elect incumbents who are promoting an affordable Seattle:  Tammy Morales in District 2 (South-East Seattle), Dan Strauss in District 6 (Green Lake, Ballard, Magnolia), and Andrew Lewis in District 7 (Queen Anne, Downtown).