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Real Change vendor Lisa Sawyer interviews Rep. Nicole Macri I knew Rep. Nicole Macri, D-Seattle, before she became an elected state representative. She was involved with so many homelessness issues before she became a lawmaker. Today, she continues to work at the Downtown Emergency Services Center (DESC) while legislating in the state House of Repre ...

  We're days away from the end of the 2017 legislative session, and the state legislature has yet to intervene in our statewide homelessness crisis with the positive solutions right there in front of them. It’s not like this crisis is a secret. We’ve all watched homelessness rise across the state. More than 20,000 people struggle to survive without ...

Bring on 2017 says Nicole Macri. We’ve asked a handful of local leaders that had big showings in 2016 to reflect on the year ahead. A smorgasbord of candidates, liberal-to-lefty, environmentalist-to-labor, lined up this year when the house seat in Seattle’s 43rd legislative district opened up. The 43rd represents Downtown, Capitol Hill, the U. Dist ...

In the run-up to Tuesday’s Election Night, CHS reported on the challenges the candidates to lead the 43rd District in Olympia faced in simply getting their constituents to know their names. Plenty of people knew the name Nicole Macri, apparently. The housing advocate cruised to an easy victory this week and will take over the seat in the state House le ...