If you buy the argument that "tech worker" is a proxy for "white male"[0] then this amounts to the city requiring housing discrimination by landlords: Combined,

If you buy the argument that "tech worker" is a proxy for "white male"[0] then this amounts to the city requiring housing discrimination by landlords: Combined, Seattle ordinances require that landlords offer benefits to certain minorities and now require that equivalent benefits not be offered to certain non[-visible]-minorities. This does absolutely nothing to actually solve the housing crisis, which is the only way non-tech-workers won't be priced out to the detriment of us all. [0] I'm not sure I do, since of the top 10 of my coworkers according to the frequency of our interaction, only one is a non-Hispanic white male, and you have to go to my lead's lead's lead's lead to find the first of only two white males in my management chain.