The current push at City Hall behind the Mayor’s “taller, denser, faster” initiative is being sold to the public on a single promise: that blanket, market-driven upzoning automatically creates affordable housing.
But we don’t build strategy on hopes or corporate developer promises. We look at the data.
On Monday, June 15th, our allies at Seattle Residents for Thoughtful Growth are hosting a crucial public forum called ReVision Seattle. We need a strong showing from the Resist NW network to look at what happens when a city blindly lets speculative capital dictate neighborhood growth.
The keynote speaker is Patrick Condon, urban planner and author of Broken City: Land Speculation, Inequality, and Urban Crisis.
He is coming to Seattle to lay out an urgent warning based on hard evidence from Vancouver, B.C.—a city that built more housing units than almost any other city in North America, only to see blanket upzoning fuel massive land speculation, leaving it the least affordable city on the continent with stockpiles of unoccupied luxury apartments.
The Briefing Agenda for June 15th:
But we don’t build strategy on hopes or corporate developer promises. We look at the data.
On Monday, June 15th, our allies at Seattle Residents for Thoughtful Growth are hosting a crucial public forum called ReVision Seattle. We need a strong showing from the Resist NW network to look at what happens when a city blindly lets speculative capital dictate neighborhood growth.
The keynote speaker is Patrick Condon, urban planner and author of Broken City: Land Speculation, Inequality, and Urban Crisis.
He is coming to Seattle to lay out an urgent warning based on hard evidence from Vancouver, B.C.—a city that built more housing units than almost any other city in North America, only to see blanket upzoning fuel massive land speculation, leaving it the least affordable city on the continent with stockpiles of unoccupied luxury apartments.
The Briefing Agenda for June 15th:
- The Reality Matrix: Where the One Seattle Comprehensive Plan actually stands now and what is being quietly pushed by special interests.
- The Vancouver vs. Portland Case Studies: Why market-driven “trickle-down” density backfires, and how intentional, anti-displacement growth models can actually protect neighborhood scale and affordability.
- The Environmental Cost: How unchecked developer incentives are leading to the erasure of tree canopy and local green infrastructure from the urban environment.
- Tactical Next Steps: How to effectively organize and make your neighborhood’s voice heard before the final plan phases are locked in.
The Details:
- What: ReVision Seattle Public Forum
- When: Monday, June 15, 2026 | 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM (Stay after for beverages, cookies, and strategy dialogue)
- Where: Mt. Baker Community Club (2811 Mt Rainier Dr S, Seattle, WA 98144)