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| Seattle's affordable-housing bargain will be ‘grand' when developers foot the bill |
| 2018-07-30 |
| [SeattleTimes] There’s one fairly simple move Seattle could make to provide more affordable housing without burdening average residents, but it requires elected officials to show more spine. Seattle should increase affordable-housing requirements placed on developers. For developers who opt to pay fees instead of provide affordable units, the city should increase the fees. Hundreds of cities now require developers to include or fund affordable housing, a planning approach known as inclusionary zoning or mandatory housing affordability (MHA). |
| Posted by:746 |
| #1 Instead, Seattle leans on renters and its mostly middle-class homeowners to fund them with levies.and they wonder why the ever increasing cost of living (taxation) sends folks to the homeless camps, |
| Posted by: 746 2018-07-30 12:24 |