That's a lot digging to find all of this information Pat ,thanks for doing the foot work ! Just Housing and Olympia Mutual Aid Partners deserve much the congratulations for the coordinated eviction of the DeSchutes Camp . While the Olympia city council has implemented the Home Fund a regressive 1 tenth of 1% sales tax that everyone pays regardless of income levels that has certainly benefited the non Profit Homes First .The City council has failed to tax the millionaire speculators building downtown and in fact has gifted about 11 million in property tax relief approx. 6 wealthy speculators while failing to implement policies that would set long term policies that would assure low income housing is built . Why these policies below in the WIP article were rejected was that Master Builders and the Chamber of Commerce stated that they did not return a high enough return on investment . Here is the list of effective thoughtful policies that the council rejected as laid out in Works in Progress :
Yours , Kim Dobson
Let’s not do that
- ON NOVEMBER 25, 2021
The Olympia City Council in June approved a Housing Action Plan that lists specific actions the City will take to ensure our housing supply is adequate and affordable for the people who live here now and in the future.
It also lists actions the Council considered but decided to exclude from the Plan. Both lists are useful for understanding the City’s commitment to market rate housing as the answer to the need for low-income housing. Excluded actions:
Allow more housing types in commercial zones.
Allow ADUs in commercial zones.
Retain existing subsidized housing
Limit the density of group homes to prevent concentration in any one area.
Establish a manufactured home park zone to promote their preservation.
Fund self-sufficiency and transitional housing programs that help break the cycle of homelessness.
Provide funding to Regional Housing Council for temporary emergency housing programs.
On a regular basis, evaluate the effectiveness of (MFTE) is being used to further affordable housing goals.
Require developers to provide income restricted units as part of low-density developments.
Require property owners to provide an affordable housing fee when building homes over a certain size.
Establish alternative development standards for affordable housing.
Require the owners of rental properties to obtain a business license.
On a regular basis, inventory rental housing.
Require developers to provide relocation assistance when a manufactured home park cannot be preserved.
Establish a property tax assistance program for low-income homeowners..
Establish a property tax assistance program for homeowners with disabilities.
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