by Nathalie Graham • May 26, 2021 at 4:38 pm
It s a lonnnnnng road to the August primary! LESTER BLACK
Last night, Seattle s slate of mayoral candidates participated in a housing and homelessness candidate forum sponsored by We Are In, a self-described education and awareness project funded by the Campion Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Raikes Foundation, and Ballmer Group, with support by Microsoft Philanthropies, Vulcan, the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, and United Way of King County.
The city s homelessness response ranks as one of the top issues facing Seattle mayoral candidates as we enter year six of a homelessness civil emergency, and as the end of the eviction moratorium threatens to uproot many struggling renters.
May 26—Amid a local boom in accessory dwelling units over the past few years, the Santa Maria City Council has adopted new regulations that will allow more residents to build and rent out additional dwellings on their property. Following a first and second reading of a new ordinance earlier this month, Santa Maria is now aligned with state regulations for ADUs, allowing the construction of .
Chicago s Disappearing Multi-Unit Buildings
The city is seeing a rapid loss of its signature two-, three-, and four-flat residential buildings, which historically served as affordable housing for working-class families. May 20, 2021, 7am PDT | Diana Ionescu | A report from the Institute for Housing Studies at DePaul University released Thursday shows Chicago has lost more than 4,800 two- to four-unit buildings since 2013, representing 11,775 rental and owner-occupied housing units, writes Hannah Alani in Block Club Chicago. But wealthy and poor neighborhoods are losing this housing stock for starkly different reasons.
Across the city, 47.5 percent of demolished two-, three-, and four-flats were replaced with a single-family home through conversion, or demolition and new construction, with the work being done mostly in North Side neighborhoods. But about one-third of the city’s flats gave way to vacant land, with that happening mostly in South and West side neighborh
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