The proposed public developer would build housing for people earning up to 120% of Seattle’s Area Median Income. ah_fotobox / GETTY

On Monday afternoon, House Our Neighbors! (HON) filed a ballot initiative to establish a public developer that would one day build, acquire, own, and manage social housing in Seattle.

“If we truly want to stop the pipeline into homelessness and meet people’s housing needs at scale, we need to adopt the strategy of a public developer to build housing that’s tailored as a human right and not as a profit motive,” said Tiffany McCoy, advocacy director at Real Change and co-chair of House Our Neighbors!

We filed an