Edwin, you are correct on only one point. The $.015 is a typo. It should read $.15. So, yes it's about 15 cents per kWh to charge at home. 
With that said, the rest of your comments only prove my point.
Why would the city design their system with only plug-in hybrids in mind as you claim? That is truly virtually worthless and penny-wise and pound foolish. A more robust system designed to meet the needs of modern EVs would cover plug-in hybrids too and would not have cost much more to put into place. Your plug-in is a bad comparison here since it does not represent the needs of modern EV owners.
Yes, electricity does cost too much in WA state because we never hold power companies like PSE accountable. PSE also generates most of its power using fossil fuels with up to a 50% transmission loss on their antiquated, non-smart, grid.
So the city should NOT charge more than the average home costs to charge at. After all, the citizens pay for the chargers and infrastructure at the Parks. The COB should charge the lowest rate possible. Say $.18 to $.20 cents per kWh. This modest increase should cover maintenance while making the chargers attractive to use, except for the fact that they’re too slow..
The main argument in my article, that you ignore in your comment, is charge time. Yes, the charge time is affected by how anemic the COBs chargers are for modern EVs. Your hybrid, is again, a bad comparison. Why design a system for a transitional technology when EV numbers and demands are only expected to increase? It truly is a half-assed way to design infrastructure. The COB simply never does it right.

The nationwide average for vacant or abandoned properties is 10.5% which Bellingham meets. So the basis for solving this crisis is for these structures to be turned into housing wherever possible. However, this has to be paired with a zero-tolerance policy for drug use while occupied. And of course, then the non-profits could do the work they want to do and offer assistance to people on a path to recovery. All of this is very doable. So why don't we do it?

Well, there are many reasons but the main reason is that our government is run by predatory real-estate tycoons. They don't want 10.5% of structures to suddenly be turned into affordable housing and bring down housing prices for their average slaves, I meant citizens and renters. They rely on the artificially inflated market they created. So does our government who uses this same system to overtax us via property taxes. This is the real reason you see no progress. When even the pretend liberal Democrats give us candidates that kick senior citizens out on the streets so they can open a fancy hotel, see City Council Member and slum-lord Dan Hammill, then it's obvious that there are simply too many conflicts of interest inside of the major parties and in our government to really take this problem head on. Time to vote for a third party. The major parties profit too much off of the status quo to ever address this issue or allow our government to.

Another odd issue is the raging sense of entitlement I've noticed here that a large portion of the population oozes out of every pore. Even fentanyl addicts seem to believe they are entitled to their "lifestyle" in Bellingham and that the workers, even the ones donating to charities that help them, are the losers who don't get it. But our elected officials seem to think that workers are losers too and make our lives as hard as they can. So I guess treating workers like shit is just the thing to do in Bellingham. Addicts, slum-lords and elected officials alike can get together at rallies and demand that we squeeze more blood out of the stone of the working class.  

Well, it's complex.
To your point, yes the fact that we spend more on our military than the next 9 countries combined, accounting for 1/8th of our annual budget, is alarming. Especially when a lot of our money and weapons are going to back genocide and holy wars. We should be putting American first, especially American Infrastructure, American Workers, Education and other domestic issues first. 
However, our biggest issue with communications goes back to the lack of a proper Dig Once Policy which the other developed countries, and many other American cities, all have a version of. I've written about this extensively before. Note: Dig Once saves 90% of the cost of installation. 
Still, the wireless part is compelex because.
1. You need lots of very affordable, high-quality, fiber on the ground for it to work correctly.
2. The telecoms really are only interested in doing high performance wireless where there are large population centers. So the idea that wireless, or satellite, will provide affordable high-performance service is a myth. Prices will remain high with low performance anywhere where there isn't enough fiber and once you have the fiber wireless largely stops making sense in comparison, or at least as a replacement. It can't replace fiber. It depends on it. Satellite too.  

I wrote an entire article about how catastrophic electing Andrew Redding would be here.

https://www.nwcitizen.com/entry/who-is-the-real-andrew-reding/

I am not voting for Ken Bell. Bell almost single handedly ruined the prospect of having a true Open Access network, like the City of Mount Vernon has, at the Port. He loves lining the pockets of corporations and helping those that can already help themselves. In fairness though, I can't tell what the hell Carly's plans are. She has nothing to say about broadband and few specifics on anything else. Still, better than Ken who will continue to line the pockets of big telecom and other special interests at our expense.