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City leaders have proposed a one-year pilot to legalize a type of housing known as the missing middle – housing for working people who can’t yet afford to buy. Duplexes would be legalized everywhere. Developers could start building townhouses, and subdivided housing known as “fourplexes" would be legal along transit routes.
ADUs are typically regulated at the local level, but advocates argue statewide legislation is what’s actually needed to get to scale. California has been aggressively leading the way.
Cities are attempting to wrest back local control over land use and zoning via some ingenious—and sometimes disingenuous—strategies.
A pulse-check on Washington's 2022 Legislative Session.
A proposed bill in the Washington state legislature that would legalize more multi-family housing in the state could add hundreds of thousands of units to the state's strained housing stock.