# Silas James, District 5 Candidate, Outlines Plans to Address Housing, Safety, and Poverty Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/hacks-wonks-870505/silas-james-district-5-candidate-outlines-plans-to-address-housing-safety-and-poverty Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/hacks-wonks-870505/silas-james-district-5-candidate-outlines-plans-to-address-housing-safety-and-poverty.md Podcast: [Hacks & Wonks](https://stenobird.com/podcast/hacks-wonks-870505) Published: 2026-06-25T19:26:25+00:00 Episode link: https://crystal.libsyn.com/silas-james-district-5-candidate-outlines-plans-to-address-housing-safety-and-poverty Audio file: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/crystal/HW20260626-topical-silas-james-podcast.mp3?dest-id=1454990 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/hacks-wonks-870505/episodes/silas-james-district-5-candidate-outlines-plans-to-address-housing-safety-and-poverty Duration seconds: 3119 ## Resource Silas James is running for Seattle City Council District 5 as a working-class Democratic Socialist focused on fixing failing systems. As always, a full text transcript of the show is available at officialhacksandwonks.com . Follow us on Bluesky at @HacksAndWonks . Find the host, Crystal Fincher, on Bluesky at @finchfrii and find Silas James at https://silasforseattle.com/ . ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/hacks-wonks-870505/episodes/silas-james-district-5-candidate-outlines-plans-to-address-housing-safety-and-poverty/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/hacks-wonks-870505/silas-james-district-5-candidate-outlines-plans-to-address-housing-safety-and-poverty.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.