Coalition Supporters!!
PLEASE take a minute to email Seattle City Councilmembers and urge them to support the Employee Hours Tax for affordable housing and homeless services! Despite the vitriolic public rhetoric against the idea, it is actually a reasonable, progressive revenue option to begin to address the housing crisis in our region. A new study, undertaken on behalf of the business organizations who oppose the tax, shows that this an much more is needed to solve our regions homeless crisis, rather than more efficiency. I’ve attached a sample letter from the Coalition – note the message is slightly different to the CM’s who have not yet agreed to support the tax (see below).
We can use our heads and invest $75 million to house and help our neighbors or we can hide our heads in the sand.
The Seattle City Council is set to vote on the Employee Hours Tax (EHT) this coming Monday, May 14th. The EHT would require big businesses that profit the most in our community to also contribute to our community. It would allow us as a city to start creating permanent homes for chronically homeless women and men and increase safe and stable housing options for gender-based violence survivors and their children.
What kind of a city do we want to be?
Who is Seattle for?
The time is now for us all to stand in strong support of the Employee Hours Tax – send your email or call TODAY to make your voice heard!
Ask Seattle City Councilmembers Bagshaw, Harrell, Johnson, and Juarez to vote YES on the $75 million a year Progressive Big Business Tax to house and shelter Seattle residents who are homeless.
Sally Bagshaw, (206) 684-8801, sally.bagshaw@seattle.gov
Bruce Harrell, (206) 684-8804, bruce.harrell@seattle.gov
Rob Johnson, (206) 684-8808, rob.johnson@seattle.gov
Debora Juarez, (206) 684-8805, debora.juarez@seattle.gov
You can find some suggested letter/email text here.
And then,
Thank Councilmembers Gonzalez, Mosqueda, O’Brien, Herbold, and Sawant.
Lorena Gonzalez, (206) 684-8802, lorena.gonzalez@seattle.gov
Lisa Herbold, (206) 684-8803, lisa.herbold@seattle.gov
Mike O’Brien, (206) 684-8800, mike.obrien@seattle.gov
Teresa Mosqueda, (206) 684-8806, teresa.mosqueda@seattle.gov
Kshama Sawant, (206) 684-8016, kshama.sawant@seattle.gov
Survivors of gender-based violence need you to act today!
We are on the verge of the boldest step Seattle has taken to house people who are homeless. Speak up NOW to support this common-sense proposal. It won’t happen unless we do our part!
Merril Cousin, Executive Director
Coalition Ending Gender-Based Violence