Reduced Utilities Bills Could Become a Reality for Seattle's Low-Income Residents

by Ana Sofia Knauf Seattle.gov
Some good news out of Seattle City Council: A proposal to automatically enroll people living in federally subsidized housing into the city's Utility Discount Program passed through committees on Tuesday, KUOW reported. This follows Mayor Ed Murray's plan, announced earlier this month, which he said would register 28,000 low-income families for the UDP. As of 2014, just one out of five eligible residents took advantage of the discount program.
The UDP, which, as Ans