We envision a city where everyone can walk to grocery stores, parks, child care, coffee shops, restaurants, drug stores, and other daily necessities.
This vision remains distant, because only 44% of Seattleites can walk to basic daily necessities. And the housing shortage is making Seattle more unaffordable every year — pushing people out of the city forcing them into long car commutes.
The good news is that, with your help, 2025 offers big opportunities to fix this.
Our Priorities
Let's Build Social Housing
Seattle voters have spoken—Prop 1A passed in a landslide!
This will help build permanently affordable housing. Social housing is an innovative method to create affordable housing in the United States, but it is common in Europe and elsewhere around the world. It is publicly owned, permanently affordable, free from market speculation, and available to all.
Seattle Neighborhood Greenways was proud to support the incredible grassroots victory led by House Our Neighbors, reinforcing our belief that housing and transportation go hand in hand.
We envision a city where everyone can walk to grocery stores, parks, child care, coffee shops, restaurants, drug stores, and other daily necessities. Today only 44% of Seattleites can walk to basic daily necessities.
Prop 1A will generate an estimated $53 million annually to create permanently affordable, publicly owned housing for people of all incomes.
Thank you to everyone who contributed to this campaign, from signature gathering to door-knocking.
Let's Plan for a Walkable City
We need to pass a Comprehensive Master Plan — the city’s big land use plan — that creates walkable and affordable neighborhoods.
We know from scientific polling that this idea has support from 81% of Seattle voters, but that still means 19%, or 143,000 people, are opposed to this idea — and a lot of them are demanding City Council weaken the plan. They want to delete or water-down what the plan calls “neighborhood centers,” which are essentially small areas that allow more housing and amenities. Learn more about this and other issues in our open letter to the city.
Take action now to save the plan’s neighborhood centers:
- Personally call or request a meeting with your city councilmembers — this is the most effective thing you can do.
- Sign a petition asking City Council to keep a neighborhood center near you.