Doug Trumm
Doug Trumm is publisher of The Urbanist. An Urbanist writer since 2015, he dreams of pedestrian streets, bus lanes, and a mass-timber building spree to end our housing crisis. He graduated from the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Washington in 2019. He lives in Seattle's Fremont neighborhood and loves to explore the city by foot and by bike.
Seattle's homeless population continues to grow according to recently released 2018 One Night Count results. Conducted on January 26th, the 2018 count tallied 12,112 homeless people in King County with 6,320 of them unsheltered. This represents a 15% gain over January 2017, when the point-in-time count found 5,485 unsheltered people...
In cowardly fashion, Sound Transit couched in legalese its decision May 17th to cut First Hill from light rail consideration. Sound Transit's lawyers alleged the agency is not even allowed to study a First Hill Station in Level 1 analysis because it's outside the Sound Transit 3 (ST3) ballot...
Attend a Red May Event: May is nearing its end but there's still time to catch a Red May event. Tonight's is on "Community and Legal Struggles to Stop Police Violence" and is taking place at Kane Hall at the University of Washington. Starting with a community conversation, the...
On Monday, the Seattle City Council unanimously passed an amended version of the Employee Hours "Head" Tax built on a compromise with Mayor Jenny Durkan that lowered the cost per full time employee from $500 to $275. On Friday, Mayor Jenny Durkan said she would not sign the $500...
Mayor Jenny Durkan is trying to block the Seattle City Council's Left wing from passing a head tax worth $75 million per year and focused on permanent affordable housing and replace it with one worth $40 million and focused on temporary homelessness services and sanitation. Negotiated with Councilmember Sally...
On Thursday Mayor Jenny Durkan announced a new regional partnership to combat homelessness alongside King County Executive Dow Constantine. Mayor Durkan said consolidating provision of homelessness services and mental health care will increase efficiency.
"The top challenge our City faces is the crisis of affordability and homelessness. It is also...
The Sound Transit Board is sitting down to meet right now and will vote this afternoon on a resolution affirming the "Sound Transit Equitable Transit-Oriented Development Policy Framework." Puget Sound Sage, Housing Development Consortium, Futurewise, Transportation Choices Coalition and the Land for Justice Steering Committee (consisting of Rainier Beach Action...
Last year members of the Wallingford Community Council (WCC) threw a mock funeral for the "neighborhood voice" at the Seattle Office of Planning and Community Development's open house on the Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA) rezone maps. The democratic process was being subverted, they argued. The City wasn't listening to...