When Eddie Lin first moved to Seattle more than 20 years ago, he and his then-girlfriend scraped by with low-paying jobs while earning college degrees. It wasn’t easy, he said, but it was doable.

But the reality of an affordable city with opportunity for all seems to be slipping away.

Lin and his now-wife have raised their two children in the Beacon Hill neighborhood, “but I don’t know how they’re going to afford to live here,” he said. His mother, now 86, recently retired and is planning to move to the city. On a fixed income with limited savings, the rental market is looking tough, he said.

“We see our city transforming, and not in a good direction on affordability,” said Lin, 48, on a recent morning at The Station coffee shop on Beacon Hill. “It’s not easy to change trajectories, but

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