HOMEOWNERSHIP AND HEALTHY LIVING GAPS ONCE IDENTIFIED BY ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE PROVEN THROUGH FINE-GRADE DATA
“The king’s share of land is reserved for single family housing,” said Chris Collier is the Alliance for Housing Affordability Program Manager for the Housing Authority of Snohomish County.
“People ask if zoning is discriminatory, and I say `of course
it is.’ It’s constraining our ability to provide adequate housing for all
different types of backgrounds.
Collier said, adjusted for inflation, data shows the cost of
housing in Snohomish County shot up more than 50 percent in the past two
decades, while median household income rose less than 10 percent.
“More and more people are renting out of necessity and many of those people are disabled, immigrants, or minorities.
Their rents are rising at
a pace far faster than their income,” he said.
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