Housing

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Work underway to create new WA housing agency
- Jake Goldstein-Street/Washington State Standard
Mayor Wilson hopes to improve Seattle's 'stingy' plan for more housing

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson is explaining her plan to let Seattle build more housing, in more places, and more quickly than her predecessor Bruce Harrell had planned.
- Joshua McNichols
Seattle Mayor Wilson wants to expand tiny house villages — with volunteers’ help

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson is beginning to sketch out her vision for expanding homeless shelters in Seattle. Though some big details are unclear, her administration is looking to expand tiny house villages and shelters.
- Scott Greenstone
This bill could let you downsize your way to home ownership in Washington

Washington state legislators want to let people live in tiny homes and RVs in backyards and driveways year round. If their bill passes, it could unlock the least expensive path to homeownership available. But critics worry about a "Cousin Eddie" problem.
- Joshua McNichols
Could the hottest real estate market become... driveways?

State legislators want to make it legal to live in an RV in someone’s backyard or driveway year-round. Could that reduce the state's housing shortage?
- Monica Nickelsburg
Portland’s approach to homelessness enters a new era

In Portland, Oregon, a new mayor and the city council are in the early stages of a change of direction on tackling homelessness, even as the number of unhoused people in Multnomah County has risen to 7,500 and continues to tick upward. OPB reporter Alex Zielinski covers Portland city politics. She gave KUOW’s Kim Malcolm this update on the homelessness situation there.
- John O'Brien
Austin built a lot of housing fast. Rents fell. What could Seattle learn?

While rents kept rising in many big cities, including Seattle, rents in Austin, Texas, have been on the decline for the last three years. That raises a simple question: Why is Austin an outlier? And is there anything Seattle could copy?
- Joshua McNichols
Housing costs dropped in Austin. How they did the impossible

Over the last few years, Austin's average rent fell. So what is Austin doing right? And what could Seattle learn from it?
- Monica Nickelsburg
West Seattle’s only overnight shelter set to close at the end of the year

Westside Neighbors Shelter will keep serving breakfast and dinner daily, but the overnight sleeping program has run out of money and will close at the end of the year.
- Casey Martin
Can a watershed have legal rights? The Snohomish River debate deepens

The tide is turning in a Snohomish County legal battle over whether a river and its watershed have legal rights that can be defended in court.
- KUOW Staff

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