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The Office of Public and Indian Housing ( PIH) is an agency of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Its mission is to ensure safe, decent, and affordable housing, create opportunities for residents' self-sufficiency and economic independence, and assure the fiscal integrity of all program participants.
Since 2021, Washington state has spent about $1.5 billion on housing construction. That’s compared to about $446 million between 2013 and 2021. Most of the money spent on construction in the ...
Apr. 14—OLYMPIA — Washington's Department of Natural Resources wants to help solve the state's housing crisis by offering state land for affordable residential development. A bill signed into ...
Jun. 7—OLYMPIA — Alleviating the shortage of affordable housing in Washington will require a combination of more money for affordable housing, reducing the cost and complexity of the ...
e. Affordable housing is housing which is deemed affordable to those with a household income at or below the median [1] as rated by the national government or a local government by a recognized housing affordability index.
Rent regulation is a system of laws for the rental market of dwellings, with controversial effects on affordability of housing and tenancies. Generally, a system of rent regulation involves: Price controls, limits on the rent that a landlord may charge, typically called rent control or rent stabilization. Eviction controls: codified standards ...
Under her proposal, housing built on state lands and deemed 100% affordable for low- and moderate-income households would be exempt from paying a leasehold excise tax, which is levied instead of a ...
Workforce housing is a term that is increasingly used by planners, government, and organizations concerned with housing policy or advocacy. It is gaining cachet with realtors, developers and lenders. Workforce housing can refer to any form of housing, including ownership of single or multi-family homes, as well as occupation of rental units.