🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

The INCREDIBLE win for social housing yesterday is a testament to our collective power (& to what a great campaign @houseRneighbors put on!). Thank you to all the grassroots organizers & volunteers who worked tirelessly to make this possible!

Community advocate, @realchangenews.bsky.social has endorsed the #affectedpersonsprogram! "It's time for our city to listen and support our communities most impacted by police violence" Thank you Real Change for your endorsement! seattleapp.org

In this week's Real Change: - Marian Mohamed talks to local residents about the bus stop closure on 12th & Jackson. - Guy Oron covers Prop 1A's decisive win last week. - Scarlet Hansen reports on HB 1108. 🚌✨Feat. Madeline Kernan’s beautiful cover art!

A bill to create a task force analyzing the drivers of rising housing & rent costs in WA is scheduled for a public hearing tomorrow, Feb. 25 — a month after passing out of the Legislature’s House Housing Committee. Scarlet Hansen reports. realchangenews.org/news/2025/02/1…

NEW: In August, Seattle canceled Nickelsville’s proposed 15-unit tiny house village in Rainier Valley. Until now, it was not clear why. Records obtained by @realchangenews.bsky.social show that about a dozen neighbors complained to the city prior to the permit denial. realchangenews.org/news/2025/03/0…

After months of advocacy by Nickelsville, and a week after I reported on Seattle's cancellation of its Brighton Village in @realchangenews.bsky.social, the city seems to have reversed course. HSD said this Wednesday that Nickelsville can resume developing the site into a tiny house village.

ICYMI: great reporting from @realchangenews.bsky.social about the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights moving through #waleg right now. WA may become the 13th state in the U.S. to END the racist, sexist exclusions that shut domestic workers out of minimum wage rights. realchangenews.org/news/2025/03/2…

Investigative reporting from @realchangenews highlighting Seattle PD’s clandestine work to influence Seattle media is highlighted within Alec Karakatsanis’ new book:

realchangenews.org/news/2023/07/1…

The city spent $89,000 on a sweep of the BLM garden not counting what was spent on SPD that day, and conducted an average of 5+ sweeps a day for 3 years, put a SODA zone over the park, gave housing money to SPD/jails, and the county kept the youth jail open. Who is this for?

On April 13th we tabled during an event held as part of the nationwide Stop Cop City Imaginary Crimes Tour in support of 61 people facing RICO trials in Atlanta for alleged involvement in resistance to the construction of Cop City.

And as pointed out by @realchangenews.bsky.social & Guy Oron the total over the last three years, two fifths of those 'sweeps' were carried out under severe weather conditions x.com/lelulolololol/…

Our @realchangenews.bsky.social contributor Nura • نورا interviewed Shannon last fall, in which she reflected on the 25 year anniversary of the WTO protests in Seattle realchangenews.org/news/2024/12/0…

New op-ed by UW professors Aria Fani and Dan Berger in @realchangenews.bsky.social: “Anyone who knew Eygi understands that her legacy far exceeds the limits of citizenship and national belonging. She would be standing with Khalil, Öztürk, Mahdawi and her peers at UW” realchangenews.org/news/2025/04/2…

In case you missed it: artists are organizing to save the El Rey, a vacant building in Belltown slated for demolition, and repurpose it for affordable housing and community spaces. They just need Seattle’s Office of Housing to sign off. @realchangenews.bsky.social realchangenews.org/news/2025/04/2…

It was a pleasure to interview sarah schulman for @realchangenews.bsky.social about her new book, “The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity.” She will be giving a talk with Dan Berger at Elliott Bay Books here in Seattle tomorrow at 7pm: realchangenews.org/news/2025/05/0…

CONGRATS Sabra Boyd ON JOINING @realchangenews.bsky.social oh my god i love this