Nonprofit housing leader Patience Malaba makes the case that a temporary, two-year recalibration of Seattle's Mandatory Housing Affordability program is critical to unfreeze the stalled-out housing pipeline, generate needed affordable housing revenue, and save MHA's very legitimacy.
Tell your councilmember to vote against the transportation impact fee. On Tuesday, amidst a deep housing affordability crisis, the outgoing Seattle City Council is setting the stage for a new fee to make building homes in Seattle even more expensive. This homebuilder fee — a “transportation impact fee” — threatens to hamper
Seattle for Everyone is a broad coalition of affordable housing developers, for-profit developers and businesses, labor and social justice advocates, environmentalists and urbanists, all united to build an equitable, thriving, and inclusive Seattle. The Seattle for Everyone coalition was built on a foundation of support for Housing Affordability and
This year, we have an opportunity to make Seattle housing more affordable. The question is this: will we share our growth and prosperity, or will our city be an exclusive enclave that only the highest-wage earners can afford? By passing a citywide version of Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA) that
Seattle, King County and the Puget Sound Region is in the midst of an unprecedented housing crisis, and we must use every available tool at our disposal to create access to affordable homes for our residents. Over the years, the shortage of affordable homes has worsened–there is simply not