To Incentivize Investment, Shoreline Expands Property Tax Exemption To Station Areas

Shoreline is expanding the city's multi-family tax exemption (MFTE) program to guarantee rent- and income-restricted units and incentivize multi-family development. The program expansion will...
A four-story building under construction.

Seattle Reveals Rezoning Concepts and Invites Scoping Comments for Big 2024 Update

Today the Office of Planning and Community Development (OPCD) unveiled its rezoning concepts for the 2024 Comprehensive Plan Update, which will guide growth for...

What’s In a Name: Ending Exclusionary Zoning

Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda is taking heat from both sides after introducing legislation recognizing Seattle’s diverse neighborhoods in a bid to lay the groundwork to...
Tree-lined street view of 3rd Ave downtown Seattle.

Seattle Council Approves Batch of Harrell’s Downtown Activation Plan Rezones

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell's pitch to rezone parts of downtown has succeeded. The mayor had made two particular rezones for highrise housing along Third...
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Tukwila Gets Serious about Transit-Oriented Housing

The South King County city has ambitious goals, but a car-centered landscape will be difficult to transform. Walking the area near the Tukwila International Boulevard...

Council To Adopt Mandatory Housing Affordability Residential Program

The Seattle City Council is poised to pass a landmark housing and land use policy today that will complete a two-pronged framework centered on delivering...

Join Us In Creating A Welcoming Wallingford

Welcoming Wallingford is a new group seeking to engage in the Housing Affordability and Livability Agenda (HALA) dialogue in the Wallingford neighborhood. This is...

City Reflects on Seattle’s Affordable Housing Progress in 2019

Our city is facing a housing crisis. Before the onset of the pandemic, when the economy was humming and jobs were bountiful, we had...