Tanya Woo Doesn't Support Social Housing

Seems to Think We Are Too Stupid To Tell

Last night at a community forum, Tanya Woo was asked whether she supports the ballot to fund mixed-income housing in Seattle, known as “social housing.”

Woo refused to answer, because her view is unpopular and apparently she thinks we are too dumb to put two and two together.

It’s no surprise that Woo opposes social housing.

After all, she opposes the decades long Democratic Party stance that taxes should be progressive—as in, that the rich should pay higher rates than the poor and middle class. She prefers the Republican approach—lower taxes, especially for the rich.

The initiative to pay for the middle-income housing is built around a nickel-on-the-dollar tax that only kicks in after your first million bucks per year—not exactly radical! This is also why big business doesn’t like it.

Remember also that the big business fat-cats tried but failed to buy Tanya a seat during the last election. But they were so successful buying seats for many of her colleagues, they sent out their dark money lobbyist to make it clear to the council that big biz is the boss and they better appoint her. The counsel quickly complied.

Anyway, here is Tanya at the forum, pretending we are all idiots.

To be clear, this isn’t an, “I need to know more” situation.

We (candidates) were all asked about it during last year’s election. The ballot to create the public developer was mooted and passed last year. The ballot for funding has already qualified this year, and whether it gets on the November ballot or the council attempts to depress turnout by pushing it to February remains to be seen. But the council decides.

This means Tanya has probably been more thoroughly briefed on this issue than almost any person in the city. Woo knows what she thinks. Insiders all know what Woo thinks—she’s not hiding it from them.

But she knows that it’s such an unpopular, Republican position, she doesn’t want you to know.