As the regularly scheduled legislative session wrapped up last month, elected officials turned their – surprise – bipartisan success on housing proposals into a mantra. It was, they said, the “year of housing.”
Given how long some proposals had stalled – years, in a couple cases – it was quite a year: On Monday, Gov. Jay Inslee signed 10 housing bills into law.
And although the governor’s ambitious $4 billion housing-bond proposal fell flat, lawmakers nonetheless put $1 billion into new state budgets geared at easing the affordability crisis, according to the Office of Financial Management.
The bills signed Monday include House Bill 1110, sponsored by Rep. Jessica Bateman, D-Olympia,
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