Key Commitments
39,976 total housing units by 2044, 4,760 additional rental units for 0-50% AMI households, 881 additional emergency housing beds, 622 new units per year
Goals
(5 total)
- HS 1: Ensure that all City residents have the opportunity to obtain safe, sanitary and affordable housing.
- HS 2: Create quality places and livable neighborhoods for all residents.
- HS 3: Respect the scale and form of established residential neighborhoods.
- HS 4: Work with the other elements of the Comprehensive Plan to understand and enhance the relationship of housing to them.
- HS 5: Encourage land use practices, development standards, and building permit requirements that minimize, or if possible reduce, housing production costs.
Stronger Policy Language (11 policies)
- HS 1.1: Maintain an adequate supply of appropriately zoned residential land in the City.
- HS 1.8: The City will coordinate and partner with agencies and nonprofits, such as the Housing Authority of Snohomish County, Housing Hope, Habitat for Humanity, and others...
- HS 5.2: Consult the City's Housing Needs Assessment and Housing Action Plan to evaluate the effectiveness and relevance of housing policies and strategies for achieving housing targets and affordability goals.
Aspirational / Monitoring Language (16 policies)
- HS 1.9: Support inter-jurisdictional cooperative efforts to foster the development and preservation of an adequate supply of affordable housing.
- HS 1.11: Encourage the preservation, renovation, and production of housing within the region that is affordable to all populations including for households earning less than 50% of AMI.
- HS 2.2: Encourage the development of middle and upper middle income housing to ensure a healthier and more diverse mix of housing choices within the community.
- HS 3.4: Encourage the integration of a variety of dwelling types and intensities in residential neighborhoods.
- HS 4.4: Promote jobs to housing balance by providing housing choices that are accessible and attainable to workers.