Everyone deserves to live in a healthy home. A place that provides clean air to breathe, space for connection to loved ones, and sanctuary from the storms. However, for many tenants living in housing owned and operated by Seattle Housing Authority (SHA), this vision is far from reality.

Through door-to-door, deep-listening conversations, SHA tenants repeatedly shared their experiences with unhealthy living conditions, lengthy wait times for repairs, a backlog of unfinished work orders, and a lack of care and respect when they bring these issues to SHA, which were affirmed by a review of SHA's own reports obtained through a public disclosure request. These findings demonstrate that SHA is failing to meet their legal obligation of ensuring habitable living conditions and addressing maintenance issues in a timely manner, is not abiding by Housing Quality Standards set by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and is not fulfilling their mission of “creating and sustaining decent, safe and affordable living environments.”

This is unacceptable. Show your support for SHA tenants by letting SHA know that every tenant deserves a healthy home and Seattle deserves healthy public housing.