inclusi.us llc
@inclusi.us
Values-informed and evidence-based policy, strategy, and public engagement for safe, healthy, sustainable, just, and resilient buildings and communities.
Average annual per capita healthcare costs, excluding insurance premiums, equal $1,514 (2023). When govt expenditures and insurance premiums are added, this figure skyrockets to $14,570. The difference is obscene profits, waste, and corruption. #M4A
This math is pretty damn accurate to our situation.
US FAMILIES NOW PAY $6,850 A YEAR FOR HEALTH INSURANCE, WHILE EMPLOYERS PAY $20,143. TOTAL ANNUAL COST PER FAMILY = $26,993.
November 20, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Average annual per capita healthcare costs, excluding insurance premiums, equal $1,514 (2023). When govt expenditures and insurance premiums are added, this figure skyrockets to $14,570. The difference is obscene profits, waste, and corruption. #M4A
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This math is pretty damn accurate to our situation.
US FAMILIES NOW PAY $6,850 A YEAR FOR HEALTH INSURANCE, WHILE EMPLOYERS PAY $20,143. TOTAL ANNUAL COST PER FAMILY = $26,993.
November 20, 2025 at 3:08 AM
This math is pretty damn accurate to our situation.
Indeed! I’ll second that.
I don’t know that Seattle understands how lucky we are to have the urban design and land-use policy thinktank that is Mike Eliason, and also to have him on the Social Housing Developer
i am cleaning up files and ran across my public comment on the comprehensive plan EIS scoping report (from 2022!), and man...
i cannot express what a massively wasted opportunity and exercise harrell's comp plan update has been.
i cannot express what a massively wasted opportunity and exercise harrell's comp plan update has been.
November 15, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Indeed! I’ll second that.
Good riddance, Bruce. Now to focus on unseating the remainder of the Chamber of Commerce city council members to wrest control of our city back from the real estate lobby and tech-bros.
Mayor Katie Wilson? It's Sure Looking That Way! - PubliCola
By Erica C. Barnett Mayoral candidate Katie Wilson edged above 50 percent of the vote on Tuesday, in the final…
publicola.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Good riddance, Bruce. Now to focus on unseating the remainder of the Chamber of Commerce city council members to wrest control of our city back from the real estate lobby and tech-bros.
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“A rent-stabilized building sells for more when it is vacant than when it is occupied. The TIC business model has emerged primarily as a way to manufacture such vacancies.”
Chelsea Kirk tussles with tenancy in common in LARA no. 2.
nyra.nyc/articles/tic...
Chelsea Kirk tussles with tenancy in common in LARA no. 2.
nyra.nyc/articles/tic...
November 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
“A rent-stabilized building sells for more when it is vacant than when it is occupied. The TIC business model has emerged primarily as a way to manufacture such vacancies.”
Chelsea Kirk tussles with tenancy in common in LARA no. 2.
nyra.nyc/articles/tic...
Chelsea Kirk tussles with tenancy in common in LARA no. 2.
nyra.nyc/articles/tic...
The real reasons we have a rent crisis. It's not all about zoning, folks.
November 11, 2025 at 7:49 PM
The real reasons we have a rent crisis. It's not all about zoning, folks.
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Good morning! If you live in Seattle, I think you’ll find that it’s a perfect day to vote Katie Wilson for mayor!
We need leaders who care about all our neighbors. Elect @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social and send this guy back to the eastside.
We need leaders who care about all our neighbors. Elect @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social and send this guy back to the eastside.
November 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Good morning! If you live in Seattle, I think you’ll find that it’s a perfect day to vote Katie Wilson for mayor!
We need leaders who care about all our neighbors. Elect @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social and send this guy back to the eastside.
We need leaders who care about all our neighbors. Elect @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social and send this guy back to the eastside.
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'Harrell’s “experience” has produced paralysis where we need progress, austerity where we need investment, and paternalism where we need partnership.'
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Bruce Harrell's biggest selling point is his "experience," but these Seattle city employees want you to know that the price of this experience is too high, and Seattle can't afford to pay it anymore.
Guest Rant: Seattle Has Paid the Price of Bruce Harrell’s “Experience”
Three city workers have had the full "Bruce Harrell experience." They're done.
www.thestranger.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:39 PM
'Harrell’s “experience” has produced paralysis where we need progress, austerity where we need investment, and paternalism where we need partnership.'
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Coining the term QUIMBYism right now and releasing it to the urbanists free of charge. Quality urbanism in my backyard, friends. The middle path between Karens and bootlickers.
October 26, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Coining the term QUIMBYism right now and releasing it to the urbanists free of charge. Quality urbanism in my backyard, friends. The middle path between Karens and bootlickers.
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Not sure which is worse, liberal NIMBYism or liberal YIMBYism, aka the home builders association’s propaganda arm. There is a middle way.
October 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Not sure which is worse, liberal NIMBYism or liberal YIMBYism, aka the home builders association’s propaganda arm. There is a middle way.
Another day, another Link light rail service disruption. Where have all those billions of dollars gone?
October 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Another day, another Link light rail service disruption. Where have all those billions of dollars gone?
Spending more money on the Seattle Police Department will not improve public safety in Seattle. You might as well give it to people experiencing homelessness to kindle fires to heat their encampments.
The Seattle City Council has approved a proposal from Mayor Bruce Harrell to increase Seattle’s sales tax to fund public safety programs in the city.
Seattle City Council members express concern but still vote to increase sales tax
The Seattle City Council has approved a proposal from Mayor Bruce Harrell to increase Seattle’s sales tax to fund public safety programs in the city.
www.kuow.org
October 16, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Spending more money on the Seattle Police Department will not improve public safety in Seattle. You might as well give it to people experiencing homelessness to kindle fires to heat their encampments.
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"California YIMBY has a lot of explaining to do. While middle- and working-class tenants struggle to pay sky-high rents, wealthy tech executives and venture capitalists are spending big to help California YIMBY kill tenant protections."
Exclusive: Tech Execs and Venture Capitalists Spend Big to Help California YIMBY Kill Tenant Protections
Tech executives and venture capitalists shell out nearly $425,000 to help California YIMBY kill tenant protections in California.
www.housingisahumanright.org
September 15, 2025 at 9:05 PM
"California YIMBY has a lot of explaining to do. While middle- and working-class tenants struggle to pay sky-high rents, wealthy tech executives and venture capitalists are spending big to help California YIMBY kill tenant protections."
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, when introducing the minimum wage, made it clear it wasn't meant as a survival-level pay—it was designed to allow people to earn a decent living, not just subsist. He strongly believed that businesses paying less than that had "no right to continue in this country".
Translation: The "success" of America's economy depends on a permanent class of workers whose jobs will never meet their most basic material necessities. Insecurity is the point: constant struggle makes people easier to exploit, less likely to resist.
August 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Franklin D. Roosevelt, when introducing the minimum wage, made it clear it wasn't meant as a survival-level pay—it was designed to allow people to earn a decent living, not just subsist. He strongly believed that businesses paying less than that had "no right to continue in this country".
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Read this statement from @homeless-law.bsky.social
BREAKING: Trump’s new Executive Order directs states to treat homelessness and mental illness as crimes. Criminalization doesn’t help anyone – we need housing and healthcare, not handcuffs and budget cuts. #HousingNotHandcuffs
Our statement: buff.ly/JlcAsF4
Our statement: buff.ly/JlcAsF4
Trump’s new Executive Order directs states to treat homelessness and mental illness as crimes - National Homelessness Law Center
Trump’s new Executive Orders direct states to treat homelessness and mental illness as crimes (WASHINGTON, D.C - March 28th) Everybody needs a safe place to live. Across America, sky-high rents are…
buff.ly
July 24, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Read this statement from @homeless-law.bsky.social
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Predictable, but no less shocking or reprehensible: Trump just signed an executive order urging states to forcibly institutionalize homeless people, defund Housing First, criminalize encampments, and cut aid to cities that don't comply.
Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose and
www.whitehouse.gov
July 24, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Predictable, but no less shocking or reprehensible: Trump just signed an executive order urging states to forcibly institutionalize homeless people, defund Housing First, criminalize encampments, and cut aid to cities that don't comply.
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What economic system has the government controlling the central means of production?
July 5, 2025 at 2:00 AM
What economic system has the government controlling the central means of production?
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I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.
May 4, 2025 at 6:21 AM
I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.
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"This is why Wilson has our vote. She sees people that are struggling and thinks about solutions, not optics. She obviously, palpably gives a damn about people, and that drives her to act, not just talk." This is spot on in the Stranger's excellent endorsement of @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social!
The Stranger Endorses Katie Wilson for Mayor
Bruce Harrell had his chance. A lifetime ago (in 2021), when Harrell first ran for mayor, he made a lot of big, substantive promises that voters seemed to believe: He pledged to build 1,000 new housin...
www.thestranger.com
July 2, 2025 at 7:24 PM
"This is why Wilson has our vote. She sees people that are struggling and thinks about solutions, not optics. She obviously, palpably gives a damn about people, and that drives her to act, not just talk." This is spot on in the Stranger's excellent endorsement of @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social!
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"And in an hour-long endorsement meeting, he didn’t answer for a single thing. In every case, the conditions in his city were someone else’s fault. "
Follow, donate vouchers to, canvas for, and vote for @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social!
Follow, donate vouchers to, canvas for, and vote for @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social!
July 2, 2025 at 8:14 PM
"And in an hour-long endorsement meeting, he didn’t answer for a single thing. In every case, the conditions in his city were someone else’s fault. "
Follow, donate vouchers to, canvas for, and vote for @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social!
Follow, donate vouchers to, canvas for, and vote for @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social!
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Seattle writer, photographer and cultural critic @cjayeasye.bsky.social shares how Seattle’s deep social and economic divisions are the result of intentional policies that have long prioritized property over people.
📰Read more here: www.realchangenews.org/news/2025/06...
📸 by Sal Biggs
📰Read more here: www.realchangenews.org/news/2025/06...
📸 by Sal Biggs
June 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Seattle writer, photographer and cultural critic @cjayeasye.bsky.social shares how Seattle’s deep social and economic divisions are the result of intentional policies that have long prioritized property over people.
📰Read more here: www.realchangenews.org/news/2025/06...
📸 by Sal Biggs
📰Read more here: www.realchangenews.org/news/2025/06...
📸 by Sal Biggs
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It's very funny to me that the argument against municipal grocery stores (and government run enterprise in general) is that it is simultaneously terrible and will be full of empty shelves and also be so good it runs private stores out of business.
June 25, 2025 at 7:41 PM
It's very funny to me that the argument against municipal grocery stores (and government run enterprise in general) is that it is simultaneously terrible and will be full of empty shelves and also be so good it runs private stores out of business.
In a desperate attempt to appear relevant and responsive to donors, Mayor Harrell has signed an executive order to directing permitting agencies to rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic. 1/8
June 26, 2025 at 12:53 AM
In a desperate attempt to appear relevant and responsive to donors, Mayor Harrell has signed an executive order to directing permitting agencies to rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic. 1/8
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New in PN: Trump's war on cities
"Urbanism in any form seems to strike them as an affront. If we have to have these despicable concentrations of humanity, at least they should be built so that if you’re forced to go there you never have to leave your car."
"Urbanism in any form seems to strike them as an affront. If we have to have these despicable concentrations of humanity, at least they should be built so that if you’re forced to go there you never have to leave your car."
Trump's war on cities
First he tells us they're hellholes, then he tries to make them worse.
www.publicnotice.co
June 5, 2025 at 12:40 PM
New in PN: Trump's war on cities
"Urbanism in any form seems to strike them as an affront. If we have to have these despicable concentrations of humanity, at least they should be built so that if you’re forced to go there you never have to leave your car."
"Urbanism in any form seems to strike them as an affront. If we have to have these despicable concentrations of humanity, at least they should be built so that if you’re forced to go there you never have to leave your car."