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Middle housing gets a haircut

Plus more cutoff casualties, a hospital-executives tax, and even more housing policy

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Going big on housing this year may mean going smaller on middle housing as progressives and moderates duke it out over where denser developments get built. 

If passed, House Bill 1110 from Rep. Jessica Bateman, D-Olympia, would permit denser housing—we’re talking duplexes, triplexes, quadplexes, and sixplexes—in areas currently limited to single-family …

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