Policy Platform
In accordance with our guiding Principles for our shared work to address the housing crisis, the Coalition for More Housing Choices has adopted a Policy Agenda for 2024. The following agenda includes specific priorities to facilitate a broad spectrum of housing choices for current residents, newcomers, and future generations.
2024 Policy Agenda
Local Planning for More Housing
Support local governments to take bold action in their upcoming updates to their Growth Management Act comprehensive plans and housing development regulations to include homes of all types that all ranges of household incomes can afford. Supporting successful implementation of new state laws facilitating more housing choices—including such things as the “middle” housing law, accessory dwelling unit (ADU) reforms, permit streamlining, HB 1220, and more--will help local jurisdictions to better meet their housing targets while creating more homes of all types for Washington families.
Transit-Oriented Development
Support opportunities to facilitate housing around transit centers that is affordable to a range of income levels and is inclusive and equitable in its design. This could include legislative efforts such as housing benefit districts or other tools to facilitate land acquisition and station planning, or tools that otherwise expand much-needed housing alongside transit routes.
Black Homeownership
Support legislative efforts to meet the goal of increasing Black homeownership, such as expanding funding for affordable homeownership, increasing the supply of and access to affordable entry-level, market-rate homes for first-time homebuyers, and developing anti-displacement strategies. These objectives are informed directly by the Coalition’s participation in the Black Home Initiative Policy Workgroup, Recommendations from the Homeownership Disparities Work Group, and the Seven-Point Plan to Increase Black Homeownership in the Puget Sound Region.
Duplex photo courtesy Sightline Institute Modest Middle Homes Library, CC by 4.0.