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Tacoma leaders are pushing to create more housing in the city, but residents say they aren’t actually solving Tacoma’s housing issues, they're creating new ones.
Share via Shortlink The white colonial at 2 Orchard Road is sorely in need of an update. Its orange and yellow floral wallpaper and abundant wooden cabinetry call to mind the year it was built: 1970. That same year, a study found, the Connecticut town where it sits, Woodbridge, had severely restrictive zoning and, not coincidentally, was among the state’s most homogenous. More problematic than the Orchard Road home’s dated decor, some say, is that the affordability and diversity of the largely white enclave northwest of New Haven has hardly changed, either. To spur reform, the nonprofit Open Communities Alliance, which is leasing the single-family home on 1.5 acres and has the option to buy it at a steep discount, is seeking to raze and replace it with a four-unit building including at least two low-income rentals. The civil rights attorneys behind the effort are calling on Woodbridge officials to permit such multifamily construction throughout the town.
Tacoma plan aims to boost affordability and diversity of housing The goal of 'Home in Tacoma' is to increase the variety of types of homes available, through rezoning and other measures. Author: Lionel Donovan (KING) Updated: 6:29 PM PDT April 7, 2021 TACOMA, Wash. — Tacoma is working on a new plan that could make buying a home more affordable. First-time homebuyers have struggled to buy homes in the city due to skyrocketing prices and lower supply. But city leaders hope the Home in Tacoma project can begin to reverse that trend. Currently, most of Tacoma’s residential areas are zoned for single-family units, but the project aims to rezone these areas to allow multiple family units, such as duplexes or townhouses, to be built in these areas as well.