Election Resources: Housing Voters Guide and Housing Voters Forum

Ballots are arriving now for the critical Seattle City Council elections, and housing and homelessness are once again the top issues. Candidates often seem to agree on the rhetoric, with each proclaiming support for compassionate, accountable and effective solutions. But behind the buzzwords, voters in each district face stark choices.

Tech 4 Housing has developed two resources to help voters better understand the choices before them. First, to help voters learn more about the issues, we held two Housing Voter Forums where we brought in experts and practitioners to help separate the rhetoric from the reality.

Watch our Housing Voter Forum to learn what responses to homelessness are truly effective and compassionate.

After you understand the issues, the next step is to understand where the candidates really stand once you get past the buzzwords. For that we posed six in-depth questions to each candidate and published their responses in our Housing and Homelessness Voters Guide.

Read our Housing and Homelessness Voters Guide to see where candidates in your district stand.

With seven of the nine Seattle City Council seats up for grabs, this election will set the course of Seattle for the next four years. We need everyone to educate themselves and vote. Ballots are due by Tuesday, November 5, and can be dropped in any mail box, no postage necessary.

The Housing Voter Forum and Voters Guide were produced in partnership between Tech 4 Housing, Seattle U's Project on Family Homelessness and Resolution to End Homelessness.