The Seattle Times is launching a new series, Affording Seattle, asking individuals and families to share how they manage their money. Each profile will feature a unique perspective on the cost of living here. No single experience is broadly representative of the entire region, but taken together, the series aims to reflect how residents see the economic opportunities the city gives them and the sacrifices they make to live here.
Knowing Seattle Times they’ll find a way to frame this as the fault of high taxes and city spending, not because 8 fucking dudes own half of the wealth in this city.
“There’s an affordability crisis because we give too much money to the poors!”
Nope:
Her biggest expense is rent. Gomez-Weston pays $830 each month for a single room, including utilities, in a boardinghouse in the Green Lake neighborhood. She shares bathrooms and a kitchen with a rotating cast of up to seven other renters, typically students and traveling nurses. There’s no common living area.
