Today is Giving Tuesday. We’re going with it and here’s our pitch. 

Seattle For Growth is your advocacy organization; a voice for people doing good things for the economy and for housing in Seattle and all over Washington.

We aren’t lobbyists or lawyers. There are lots of good lobbyists and lawyers.

Seattle For Growth advocates for economic growth, for job creation, for more opportunity and innovation, and most of all, we are for more housing of all kinds everywhere in our state for people of all levels of income.

When no one else would, we debated rent control.

We appealed a downzone of Seattle’s low-rise zones.

We have appealed Seattle’s effort to impose impact fees.

We have been a lone voice speaking out against ruinous mandates for fees on new housing that will drive up housing prices.

And we’ve traveled the state talking with people in rural communities like Grays Harbor County that have received zero dollars from the states’ bulging Housing Trust Fund, money that is subsidizing Seattle’s overregulation of the housing market.

We helped create Fair Housing Washington, a political voice that will be critical in the coming year.

We have done what nobody else in the state has done or will do, take on non-profit housing developers that have lobbied for more and more money when they should be pushing, with us, for fewer and fewer rules, regulations, taxes, and barriers to the creation of housing.

I’ll repeat something I shared in a previous e-mail, said by someone who’s been in the real estate business for a long time but surely applies to everyone in the state who cares about creating more economic opportunity:

If you’re not willing to fight for what you want, then you deserve what you get.

Rules are important; they create certainty. But when rules prevent the creation of a good thing, more housing, someone has to push back. We know there are many advocates for more rules, more taxes, more limits, and more money for housing.

We need your support to keep up the effort in a big year ahead. If you want to read more about what we’ve done, click here. And if you’re interested in supporting Fair Housing Washington, click here.

Then click here or on the button below or send a check made out to Seattle For Growth, Roger Valdez, PO Box 2912, Seattle, Washington 98111.

Let’s keep up the fight in 2019!