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Measuring Success on the Urban Villages Strategy, Part 2: Resource Use, Conservation, and Healthy...

Editor's Note: This is Part 2 in a three-part series on measuring the success of Seattle's urban village strategy. For background on the report, see...

Measuring Success on the Urban Villages Strategy, Part 1: What It’s All About

Editor’s Note: This is Part 1 in a three-part series on measuring the success of Seattle’s urban village strategy. For the the 22 independent indicators,...

Seattle and King County See Increase of Unsheltered Homeless

In the early morning hours of Friday, January 23rd, volunteers spread across King County in order to complete the One Night Count. This annual...

‘One Night Count’ Is Tonight

Every January, a count of our fellow residents experiencing homelessness is conducted across Seattle and King County. Last year, the results of the One...

Farewell to 2014: It Was the Year of The Urbanist

2014 was an unassuming year for The Urbanist. At the outset of it, The Urbanist was little more than an idea. But late January...

Seattle Housing Authority Shelves “Stepping Forward”

The Executive Director of Seattle Housing Authority, Andrew Lofton, sent a letter to the mayor today indicating that the proposed changes known as "Stepping...

City Considers Municipal Bank

The Seattle City Council held a briefing Wednesday afternoon on the creation of a municipal bank. Councilmember Licata, chair of the Finance and Culture...

Comment on the Mayor’s Housing Affordability and Livability Agenda

Seattle Mayor Ed Murray has an initiative to establish policies and goals for housing affordability and livability within the city. The Mayor's initiative is...