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Electric SUVs are a bad use of lithium
Just as automakers have coalesced on moving towards electric vehicles, it’s become clear the affordable EV is dead. Back in 2017, media anticipated that affordable mass-market EVs were just around the corner. The compact sedan Tesla Model 3 was announced at $35,000 as a Ford Focus competitor, while the Chevy Bolt was already available at…
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Limited Equity Cooperatives: combating displacement with collective ownership
Abstract In Seattle, the past decade of job and population growth dwindled housing affordability and caused a record crisis of displacement and homelessness. The city’s home prices accelerated beyond the means of working-class families, and new construction was dominated by rental housing that offers residents no long-term cost stability or tenancy guarantee. The City of…
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Power and Violence in the Gig Economy
The largely immigrant of color workforce is denied lifesaving employment rights, while experiencing media stigma and political persecution. Attempts to improve these conditions through regulation may eliminate income opportunities for undocumented workers. The “gig economy” of ride-hailing and food delivery apps has rapidly grown in the past five years. This development is the latest in…
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What Should Aurora Be?
Aurora has the asset and opportunity to develop a lively street while improving equity. Neighbors, communities, and the City should act to preserve the resources that protect Aurora’s most vulnerable residents, including sex workers and unhoused people that call the highway home.
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Seattle’s new cottage policy is a win-win for affordability and neighborhood livability
If you’ve spent time in any of Seattle’s residential neighborhoods in the past 3 years, you’ve probably seen slight variations of this modern mansion popping up everywhere
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Seattle has a responsibility to its unhoused residents, and sweeps aren’t the way
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Environmental justice globally will be fought for with local movements