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The Year of Housing 2.0: winners and losers

The Year of Housing 2.0: winners and losers

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Getting big ideas past the Legislature can mean thinking small and the sequel to last session’s “Year of Housing” was a tough lesson about how to downsize your dreams in Olympia.

Low-income housing was this session’s biggest loser 

What promised to be the triumphant finale to the Biennium of Housing that kicked off 2023 dealt a losing hand to urbanists, p…

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