Rep. Jessica Bateman
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State Rep. LD 2️⃣2️⃣ & Candidate for Senate | organizer, housing & healthcare | she/her | personal account |
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@seattletimes
. Legalizing modest home choices in no way eliminates the construction of single family homes. Fear-mongering housing policy is lazy & harmful.
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Y’all we passed middle housing in Washington State!!!!!🎉🎉🎉🎊🎊🎊🥳🥳🍾🍾🍾👏👏👏👏
#Homes4WA
HB 1110, the middle housing bill, passed on a big bipartisan vote of 35-14 in the Senate. 🎉 Now the two chambers will have to decide how to proceed with two different bill versions.
#Waleg
@YesHomes4WA
@jessdbateman
@SenatorTrudeau
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Very excited to see the House pass HB 2252 unanimously! This allows small businesses in residential zones, which will help our communities create livable, walkable neighborhoods!🏘️☕️🚴♀️
@Sightline
@UrbanistOrg
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@Ocasio2018
@JonGiftosMD
It’s also one of the reasons we aren’t seeing affordable housing being acted on with urgency. The majority of electeds can’t relate and their policy priorities reflect it.
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It’s time to legalize low-impact, affordable housing options in WA state. Our housing crisis requires a statewide response & allowing duplexes, triplexes & quads is a common sense solution.
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State could make it legal for property owners to build modest home types like duplexes & fouplexes - Fixed it for you
@KIRO7Seattle
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HB 1110 just passed out of Appropriations with all Dems voting yes, plus 5 Rs!!! The bill now goes to Rules, & then the House floor. Thank you to the relentless support from our pro-housing coalition including my colleague
@AKB1968
. 🙏🏻🥳👏
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We are past denying the simple truth that housing policy is climate policy. Environmental orgs need leadership that embrace this reality & fight for housing & climate justice.
A fracture explodes: this week, CA’s top NIMBY groups joined a major wing of the environmental movement to oppose SB 423, which allows faster/cheaper homebuilding. That’s at odds with experts who say infill housing reduces emissions and segregation. Left-NIMBY alliance deepening!
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Proud to have the support of so many of my colleagues (& almost the entire freshman class!) for legalizing middle housing statewide. 🏘️ Half measures will avail us little progress. It’s time for bold change.
#Homes4WA
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I’m disappointed to report that I have proposed a striking amendment to my bill 1782.The striker would limit the bill to only allowing up to fourplexes w/in .25 mile of transit. This is a significant reduction of the bills scope, but I need a bill that can pass.
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Let’s get this pro-housing session started! HB 1110 Increasing Middle Housing co-sponsored by Rep. Barkis will legalize fourplexes statewide, provides an affordable density bonus by allowing sixplexes if 2 units are affordable. Also, sixplexes w/in 1/2 mile of transit.
@AKB1968
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Actually, when we give property owners more autonomy over what they can do with their property, it’s the opposite of government overreach.
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Unfortunately, HB 1782 was not passed by our 5pm deadline, making
#Homes4
dead for this session. 1/7
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Leaving the capitol this morning after a huge, hard fought victory for housing people in our state. I am grateful 🙏🏻 for this moment & appreciate all the work that got us here. Today we celebrate, and tomorrow (or later today) we get back to work.🥳
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Middle housing now goes to the Gov. for their signature! 🎉Thank you to our pro-housing coalition who made this day possible. Let’s house the people! 🏘️
Breaking: Our Middle Housing bill, HB 1110, has PASSED the concurrence vote in the House and is now headed to
@GovInslee
's desk for signature!
@jessdbateman
@AKB1968
@SenatorTrudeau
and Sen. Braun, thank you for your leadership! Everyone! Thank you! We did it together!
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I’m excited to share that I am running for the open 22nd district Senate seat being vacated by Senator Sam Hunt who announced his retirement yesterday.
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Holy smokes!!! We got the bill out of Appropriations!!! I am so grateful for all the time the comm. put into hearing & voting this bill out. And, to all of you who took time to advocate for it. 🙌Let’s get this bill to the floor!
#Homes4WA
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Just created my 2024 bill folder. More housing bills coming up!
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Missing middle once again back in court. After Superior Court rules in favor of Olympia opponents are appealing. = 4 years of missed opportunity thanks to a wealthy group of residents suing to prevent construction of modest home choices. We must enact statewide zoning reform.
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I will introduce the Housing Accountability Act again in 2025 which includes the Builder’s Remedy. ✅
The Builders' Remedy, sponsored by the Bay Area Council, is perhaps the most successful housing law ever in California. Just one of the law firms I work with has dozens of projects and tens of thousands of homes in review. It's a staggering wave of housing about to crash on rents
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We did it!!!
And there it is;
#Homes4WA
middle housing legislation has been signed into law! 🥳🎉🍸
Shoutout to our many wonderful partners in the effort to get this bill passed in the
#WALeg
this year, and to
@jessdbateman
, who looks exactly like the proud parent of this bill she is 😂
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Minimum parking requirements prioritize cars over housing people.
Habitat's evolution toward building more multifamily affordable ownership housing is also thwarted by parking mandates.
Habitat recently completed a 13-unit affordable condo building and as
@RPDONOHUE
said, “if we had to do parking there, it wouldn’t have been possible”
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After some much-needed restoration I have decided to run for re-election to retain my seat in the legislature. I am committed to fighting for fair and sustainable tax reform, equitable healthcare for all, protecting our environment and ending our housing crisis.
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Sadly HB 2113 has died. Without a mechanism for accountability, we cannot hold cities accountable for disallowing middle housing & ADUs. I will bring this bill back next session to finish this important work. ⏳
Another victim of house of origin cutoff today: the Housing Accountability Act, which would have brought a builder's remedy to Washington.
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Ready to legalize middle housing? 🏘️ HB 1110 is being signed into law today by
@GovInslee
.
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Very happy to see WA *finally* on the list of states who have taken action to end exclusionary zoning. 🙌“Oregon, California, Washington, Montana and Maine have ended them statewide.“
#Homes4WA
In the 1910s, US cities began enacting policies that would shape neighborhoods and, unintentionally, lay the roots for the severe housing shortage today: single-family zoning laws
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That’s how you do it. Good work.
@davidlgutman
@seattletimes
NEW: The Washington state House of Representatives late Monday passed a bill that would legalize duplexes and fourplexes in almost every neighborhood of every city in Washington.
@davidlgutman
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The largest city in the state should have the most density. People want to live near jobs and in high opportunity areas. Restricting density here creates sprawl and limits opportunity.
A tremendous piece of journalism here from
@eyesonthestorm
.
In the piece, he tracks the origins of Seattle's housing crisis to a hinge point in the early '90s, when neighborhood councils restricted housing growth. 1/
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I will continue fighting to create abundant housing, so we can create a future where our friends, neighbors & children can afford to live in the place they call home.7/7
Thank you.🙏🏻
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We all need to aim high for housing. The largest city in the state needs to lead on innovative and bold housing policy to create the livable, walkable communities we deserve.
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Good news! HB 1782 has been pulled from the Rules Committee! Thanks to everyone who called and emailed their legislators!🥳
#Homes4WA
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Although I am very disappointed, I am grateful to everyone who advocated for
#Homes4WA
. You made a huge impact, even if it doesn’t feel like it right now. I believe the coalition we’ve started is the foundation for an even stronger policy proposal next year. 2/7
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2023 is the year for housing solutions! 🏘️ House Dems have announced the creation of new committee jurisdictions including the revised Housing Committee. This comm. will focus entirely on addressing all facets of housing.✅
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For those interested in seeing what actual duplexes, triplexes, & fourplexes look like. Hey
@seattletimes
looking @ you!
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“The framework, however, retains the city’s strategy of concentrating growth in specific “urban villages” while restricting development in most residential areas.” This defeats the intent & purpose of HB 1110.
"However, those homes would be allotted the same total square footage — 4,500 square feet on most lots — as what’s currently allowed, meaning each individual home would need to be smaller."
make no mistake, this is a planners war on
@jessdbateman
's law.
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Eliminating min. parking requirements is on the to-do list for WA.📋✅
“All we did in the ordinance was change the word ‘required’ to ‘recommended.’ The city voted a unanimous yes to the change and, within a few short months, Norman’s parking laws became “recommendations” for developers versus a requirement.” 🅿️
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I spent years on Olympia City Council fighting for middle housing. When I got to the legislature, I made it my mission to legalize middle housing statewide. It took us 2 years, but we did it! The work continues & today we celebrate.🎉
You did it!!!
Huge thanks for your commitment and stellar leadership forging smart policy and bringing together a broad, bipartisan coalition to agree to lift bans on
#middlehousing
across Washington!
A big win for affordability for all! Congratulations,
@jessdbateman
!
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To celebrate the diversity of middle housing that should be available to all Washingtonians - I’ll be sharing middle housing pics daily until HB 1110 is heard in comm. Please add y/favs!
@YesHomes4WA
@FuturewiseWA
@Sightline
@AKB1968
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My fantastic, talented & super smart legislative staffer made me this Lego duplex to celebrate passage of HB 1110. Be still my pro-housing ❤️!
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Housing policy 🏘️ = climate policy.🌍
If you’re blocking infill housing, you might as well start burning coal in your yard, writes K.C. Golden in an Op-Ed on a much-debated housing bill before the Legislature.
#WaLeg
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SHB 1782 was voted out of committee today! While the bill is not perfect, getting it this far is a significant success that would not have been possible w/out your support! Thank you!🙌❤️ More work is needed on the bill, but this moment is worth celebrating.🥳
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If you are a pro-housing local elected we need to hear from you next session! Cities are already mobilizing against legalizing low-impact, modest homes. Your voice matters & we need to hear it. 📢
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We did it! Thank you to everyone who made this day possible. Stakeholders, staff, colleagues, and my colleague
@AKB1968
This bill is not perfect & is a huge step forward to create more
#Homes4WA
@Sightline
@FuturewiseWA
House Bill 1110 has passed the Washington House of Representatives, on a vote of 75-21.
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I was raised by a single mom who started her public service career as a janitor. Her union job enabled her to buy a home for us. She would not be able to afford that home w/today’s unaffordable prices. HB 1782 will create more
#Homes4WA
for middle class families.
More middle housing will lead to more housing security. Thanks to
@jessdbateman
and
@senmonadas
for leading the effort.
#waleg
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Homes 4 WA has dropped!
@senmonadas
& I are sponsoring a bill to legalize middle housing statewide. Let’s go!
#WaLeg
#Housingforall
Companion bills to allow more housing near transit and more missing missing housing in single-family housing areas have been filed by Reps. Bateman and Macri and Sens. Das and Kuderer. 🏙
#HB1782
#SB5670
#waleg
#EndApartmentBans
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The senate version of
#Homes4WA
moved out of committee today 10-1! 🙌🙌🙌
And we do mean thanks to the ENTIRE Senate Housing Committee - vote was 10-1! Bipartisan support for housing across Washington!
#WALeg
#Homes4wa
#CostOfHome
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Woot woot!
#Homes4WA
has 28 co-sponsors (half of the dem caucus)! Thank you for the support!
#missingmiddle
#waleg
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To celebrate the hearing for HB 1782 I’ll be posting some of my favorite examples of middle housing. Share yours in the replies!🏘
#Homes4WA
#missingmiddle
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Unfortunately, philosophic beliefs about “local control” are crippling our ability to take this necessary step. There is a real disconnect that limits fully appreciating the impact of our housing crisis & the necessary urgency of taking action. 6/7
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This is why we must pass the Housing Accountability Act. Legalizing middle housing isn’t meaningful if your development regulations prohibit it from being built. 👎 Cities have a responsibility to abide by state law & facilitate the construction of their fair share of housing.
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Alright, housing Twitter. Let’s get inspired to testify in support of a statewide lift of bans on home choices! No parking mins & up to sixplexes w/in half mile of transit, duplexes/fourplexes statewide. 🏘Let’s do it!
#Homes4WA
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Why a state level zoning floor is necessary. “The urban village strategy has not been able to mitigate the displacement of BIPOC residents because it perpetuates a land use and zoning policy that was specifically designed to limit their housing options,” the analysis says.
“The analysis recommends that the city change its zoning laws to allow more housing types in areas outside the urban villages that are now reserved for single-family homes”
2 years later, the city is shoving 93k homes in urban villages and 19k elsewhere
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Continuing the long tradition of prioritizing cars over people. 👎 Is it 2024 or did we travel back in time to 1994? We know better & should do better.
Another huge missed opportunity in the draft Seattle Comp Plan: parking reform.
The Plan gets it right on all the reasons to abolish mandates, yet still justifies retaining them for this: "they can help to reduce competion for on-street parking."
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Getting the 2024 Year of Housing 2.0 started by passing HB 1245 - legalizing lot splitting statewide & hearing HB 1998 legalizing co-living spaces in WA!
#Homes4WA
@AKB1968
@MiaGregerson33
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After years of building a diverse pro-housing coalition, WA leaders should understand that abundant housing is popular and status quo housing policy isn’t.
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Our housing crisis requires that we take action to lift bans on modest home choices.The shortage of 225k homes is locking families out of opportunity. 3/7
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@holz_bau
This is why we need to pass the Housing Accountability Act. Our communities are literally begging for more housing options & our processes are perpetuating the status quo.
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We just passed HB 2474 which holds cities accountable for violating state law by disallowing & obstructing the creation of permanent supportive housing & emergency shelter. ✅
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Passing HB 1110 was only possible because of a coalition of diverse supporters making housing a priority. 🙌🙌🙌 1/
@FuturewiseWA
@Sightline
@AARPWA
@MBAKS_Voice
@SierraClubWASt
@UrbanistOrg
@AKB1968
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Already planning next steps for after session ends. 📝 We live to fight another day. 🙌
#Homes4WA
@jessdbateman
is a state champion legislator who had the gusto to fight the good fight and help those struggling with housing costs in WA, and for that I am grateful. We'll just have to come back next year and try again!
#Homes4WA
#WAleg
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The 2023 legislative session begins tomorrow & top of the agenda is addressing our housing shortage. ✅ HB 1110 will make it legal to build middle housing statewide. 🏘️ Sign up to follow the bill here.
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I know this is disappointing & frustrating news. I’ve put everything into moving this bill & I feel your frustration. And, I do believe that the striker would be an improvement to the status quo.
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HB 1110 increasing middle housing has a public hearing NEXT week 1/17 @ 4pm. ⏰ Please sign-in pro or to testify here:
@Sightline
@FuturewiseWA
@SierraClubWASt
@habitatskc
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Solving the housing crisis requires adopting urgent solutions to increase supply. This is the opposite.
And incoming permits for new housing are on their fourth year of dropping.
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My bill to create a new system for ensuring we are planning for and legalizing diverse housing options with the Builders Remedy has 19 co-sponsors! 🙌 This is a necessary & huge shift in how we approach land use policy in WA.
#Homes4WA
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Land use policy IS climate policy. 🏘️🌏 You cannot be a true environmental organization in 2024 without accepting that fact. We need diverse leadership on the boards of enviro nonprofits to shift this archaic paradigm that is obstructing our climate goals.
On Wednesday, I am recording a pod with the folks at
@RockyMtnInst
about the potential of state-level land use reform to contribute to the climate fight, based on their recent report.
This is a rich topic, to say the least. What should I ask?
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1110 Has been changed significantly since it dropped @ the beginning of session. And, I believe the policy is still an improvement & will help create more
#Homes4WA
.
And HB 1110 passes Senate Ways & Means!
Getting a middle housing bill this strong this far through
#waleg
was unthinkable even just a year ago.
Huge thank you to
@jessdbateman
plus so many others, and especially the volunteers on the
@FuturewiseWA
team.
#Homes4WA
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The paradigm needs to change from having to prove you should be able to build housing in an urban area - to proving why you shouldn’t. Addressing our housing crisis requires bold action, not replicating the same antiquated policies that got us here.
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Imagine if after all the hours of “productive conversations” the AWC could support HB 1110 & allowing diverse housing options everywhere. Instead, they are using their time & resources to make it less effective. 🤷🏻♀️ We are pricing young people out of the future they deserve.
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HB 1110 is being exec’d this afternoon in the Housing Committee! The bill has undergone changes that are necessary to keep it moving, while remaining true to the intention of the bill. We must re-legalize middle housing statewide. 🏘️
#Homes4WA
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Fresh out of the hopper. Check it out👇
#Homes4WA
JUST FILED: The WA "Housing Accountability Act", which will subject the housing elements of local cities' and counties' Comprehensive Plans to additional state oversight...and which also includes a "builder's remedy" as a result of noncompliance.
#hb2113
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Housing friends! My race for the Senate is getting crowded with one R and two D’s and another announcing soon. If you’ve followed my housing work & would like to see me continue please consider making a contribution to help me get there. 🙏🏻
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The housing crisis is real and continues to impact families across WA. 2024 needs to be the ‘year of housing’ 2.0.
“‘I think we’re going to continue to see a significant focus on housing bills, in all of the different realms, including supply, stability, and support — financial investments,’ Representative Jessica Bateman (D-22, Olympia)…”
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Less of a goodbye. More like, we’ll see you soon. ✅
Goodbye to the idea of du/tri/fourplexes on current single family lots. WA cities won't have to upzone near transit anytime soon. The "missing middle" legislation is dead 💀
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Heavy-handed is prohibiting anything other than SF in the vast majority of cities. We’ve been “balancing” housing needs w/local control for decades. To address our housing shortage we must allow the construction of modest & more affordable home choices statewide.
#Homes4WA
If a heavy-handed approach to zoning wins the day in Olympia, all the citizen involvement in the Comprehensive Plan process may come to naught.
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We don’t have time to waste. The housing crisis is being felt in every corner of our state, impacting families on all ends of the income spectrum. Land use is inextricably linked to our ability to mitigate climate change. 5/7
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Thriving cities need ample housing for the people who want to live there. 🏘️Seattle still has time to improve their Comp. Plan. so it reflects the values of their residents and businesses who know we need abundant housing. ✅
#HomesforWA
@Sightline
@UrbanistOrg
New: 50+ groups called on Harrell to greatly increase density in the comp plan update, arguing if he doesn't plan will exacerbate housing shortage. Lots of big players on the list including the Chamber, affordable housing developers, community groups, realtor orgs, businesses
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SHB 1110 has been scheduled for a public hearing! 🥳 Email your legislators & let them know why you support
#housing4all
. The bill must move out of approps by Fri. 2/24 or it’s dead.
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Exponential increases in home & rent prices have led to Washingtonian’s struggling, spending 1/3 to 1/2 their income on housing costs. Home ownership is only affordable in 7 WA counties, & they are all in Eastern WA. 4/7
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My hope is that we can get the votes needed to pass this bill off the House floor by Tues. & strengthen it in the Senate.
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HB 1110 has been rescheduled for executive action tomorrow & is first on the agenda. We must pass this bill to create more
#Homes4WA
. 2023 is the year for housing. The time is now.
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Families in WA in large cities & small are spending up to half their income on housing. Washingtonians deserve real solutions to our housing crisis.
@senmonadas
& I are introducing a bill to lift bans on low-impact housing.
Just now: Washington governor Jay Inslee says he supports state legislation to overturn local bans on missing middle housing. Proposal would allow up to four units per lot in cities above a certain size.
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639 people have signed-in Pro for HB 1110! 🙌 We must increase the supply of housing, stabilize people in their homes & increase our investment in subsidized affordable housing. It’s time to legalize middle housing statewide. Sign-in here:
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HB 1782 is scheduled for executive session TOMORROW! 🙌 If the bill is exec’d there’s just one more step before it comes to the House floor for a vote! Thank you housing advocates for rallying to support this bill & more
#Homes4WA
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We must have measures to hold cities accountable for planning for & reaching their housing growth targets. The Housing Accountability Act provides repercussions & the Builders Remedy to enable affordable housing construction by right.
#HB
2113
#Homes4WA
“This is an opportunity for us to create a system of accountability to ensure that cities are abiding by the law, and that they’re doing what’s required, and providing a system for how we hold them accountable.” —
@jessdbateman
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Earlier this week, the Olympia City Council took a significant step towards becoming a more inclusive & walkable city that welcomes new neighbors to our town. 🏘
The ordinance effectively eliminates single family zoning in Olympia.
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“We need to make it easier to build homes of all shapes and sizes, so that everyone in Washington has access to a decent and affordable home,” said Rep. Jessica Bateman, D-Olympia.
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HB 2270 creating the Dept. of Housing so we have one agency dedicated to addressing our housing needs in Washington.
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We are working hard this week to pass bills before Tues. cutoff. With all the late nights, I broke down & ate the V-day chocolates I had delivered to myself that arrived early…😬 sorry not sorry. Also, now I need more chocolate.🤣
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Now hearing HB 2160 Transit-oriented development which prohibits cities from banning multi-family housing near transit. ✅ This bill is essential to meet our housing supply 🏘️ and climate goals 🌎.
@RepJuliaReed
#Homes4WA
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The majority of people support more housing choices. It’s time to unlock opportunity for families across WA & enact statewide zoning reform. Let’s do this!
#WAYIMBY
#Housingforall
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It’s simple. We need to build more housing to keep pace w/pop. growth. Let’s do it.
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