Key Commitments
35,000 additional housing units by 2044; approximately 29,000 units affordable to those earning 80% or less AMI by 2044; 11,925 units for 0-30% AMI households
Goals
(1 total)
- HO-Goal: To meet the housing needs of the entire community by promoting housing equity, increasing overall housing diversity and supply, creating affordable housing, attending to individuals' unique housing needs, and preventing displacement and homelessness
Stronger Policy Language (44 policies)
- HO-7: Employ effective strategies that support and enforce the Fair Housing Act and affirmatively further fair housing.
- HO-14: Ensure there are zoning ordinances and building policies in place that allow and encourage an increase in the housing supply attainable to households along the full range of income levels.
- HO-45: Ensure that all affordable housing created in the city with public funds or by regulation remains affordable for the longest possible term.
Aspirational / Monitoring Language (29 policies)
- HO-22: Allow innovative housing types and demonstration projects that could serve as a model for new housing choices currently not being built in Bellevue.
- HO-34: Explore the creation of a funding mechanism to assist extremely low-, very low- and low-income households with property tax payments to prevent displacement.
- HO-46: Create financial incentives to encourage affordable housing. Explore opportunities to utilize multiple programs simultaneously to attain deeper affordability or otherwise meet unique needs.