Mayor Bruce Harrell will deliver his second State of the City address Tuesday touting his administration’s first year of accomplishments and setting the stage for his next steps as the city more fully awakens from pandemic slowdowns but continues to be tangled in challenges around homelessness, addiction, mental health, affordability, and climate change. Meanwhile, new economic challenges from the surge in interest rates lurk.
The mayor’s office has produced a “summary year-end report” detailing “the Harrell administration’s work in 2022” that we have embedded below. In it, Harrell’s office says his “One Seattle” campaign “invites dialogue and learning, collaboration and cooperation, innovation, and thoughtful change” but there is “more work ahead.”
“We must continue to ensure effective long-term public safety, advance sustainable solutions to our region’s homelessness and housing crises, build community resilience to the impacts of climate change, and drive an equitable economic recovery that uplifts all neighborhoods across our beautiful city,” Harrell’s introduction reads. Continue reading