Since the program’s creation in 2016, 20 EDI projects have been completed, with another 56 in the pipeline.
Leah Martin, an architect who has worked with community groups on EDI projects, testified on May 28 that it is unfair to hold EDI projects to a higher standard than other housing projects, which can take as long as eight to 10 years to complete from design to permitting to construction.
Tanya Treat, a Duwamish Tribal Councilperson, testified that EDI recipients must “be given adequate time to deliver their projects — equivalent to or more so than with the grace that’s provided to city capital projects.”
EDI recipients feared that even if
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