This fine looking couple tried to upgrade their situation a little and Seattle jumped in to make it as difficult as possible. It's what they do, day in and day out.
As the saying goes: "With friends like the progressives, who needs enemas."
They Want To Fix Up Their Home; Seattle Demands They Pay An Extra $11,000
After saving for years, Andre and Erika Cherry were finally able to buy their first home together in Seattle. They knew their purchase—a century-old house in their neighborhood—was a fixer-upper, but the Cherrys had enough set aside to turn the creaking structure with its “bouncing” floorboards into a comfortable, modern home. What they hadn’t counted on was the city of Seattle forcing them to pay roughly $11,000 into an ironically named Mandatory Housing Affordability fund just to start their home renovation.
