An innovative law that the Seattle City Council passed in 2001 to make developers pick up the tab for low-income housing came back last week for a tune-up that the city's Office of Housing says is needed to make the ordinance run more smoothly.
But at least one housing advocate is balking, claiming the city's trying to pull a fast one by cutting out the lowest-income households that the ordinance serves today.
The changes would be to the city's downtown commercial bonus program, which encourages office developers to put a certain percentage of low-income housing units into their projects. What they get in exchange