Join Us for Urbanist Panel Breaking Down 2024 Washington State Legislature Session

The session yielded less than expected for the “Year of Housing 2.0.” Our March 26 event will conduct an autopsy.

The Washington State legislative session came to an end on March 7. What’s changing? What’s staying the same? Join our expert panel as we consider what happened this session from an urbanist lens.

Our panel features The Urbanist‘s contributing editor Ryan Packer and our elections committee Vice Chair Jazmine Smith, and it will be moderated by Crystal Fincher, who is a political consultant, host of the Hacks and Wonks podcast, and a board member at The Urbanist.

Join our virtual session Tuesday, March 26 at 5pm. Sign up for the Zoom link and to reserve your spot or join here.

The panel will speak for an hour and then leave time for a Q&A at the end, so bring your questions. Can’t make it? We’ll share the video on this page (see above) after the event.

Year of Housing 2.0 Mostly Fizzles Out at Washington Legislature

The state’s 60-day legislative session wrapped on March 7 with only a few housing bills headed to Governor Inslee’s desk. Rent stabilization, transit-oriented development, lot-splitting, and a builder’s remedy all failed to pass.

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State Legislators Push for ‘Year of Housing 2.0’

While 2023 was dubbed the ‘year of housing,’ 2024 could be a second act, with unfinished business left to tackle. In 2023, the Washington State Legislature focused its attention on increasing the state’s housing supply with a fervor not seen in decades. And that attention paid off. Laws were passed that will soon require cities … Continue reading State Legislators Push for ‘Year of Housing 2.0’

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