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ULI Northwest | King County Affordable Housing Symposium
Click here to register on the Housing Development Consortium website.
The first annual King County Affordable Housing Symposium will bring together elected leaders, sector professionals, policy experts, business partners and housing advocates with the primary goal of advancing the role of affordable housing within our community. The Symposium will launch the Affordable Housing Local Policy toolkit that the Housing Development Consortium and Urban Land Institute have developed in partnership with a diverse steering committee.
The expectation of tens of thousands of new jobs and
residents over the next few years has pushed land and housing costs to
astronomical new heights throughout King County. This, combined with our
housing shortage, means that there has never been a greater need for housing at
every level of affordability and it is especially acute for those earning 80%
of area median income and below.
The Affordable Housing Policies and Programs Education
toolkit will help all of King County rise to the challenges of our housing
crisis by highlighting high-impact tools that can effectively address it. This
year’s symposium will be hosted in Bellevue, as the growing city and greater
Eastside are one of the hottest markets in the nation. We have an affordable
housing crisis, across the region that needs policies and programs to
effectively address it.
This year’s event will feature distinguished speakers from
the United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)‘s office for
a nationwide perspective; Josh
Brown, the Executive Director at the Puget Sound Regional Council, for
local regional housing trends; Bellevue Mayor Lynne
Robinson, and others from across King County. This is a must-attend event
for elected officials, planners and engaged residents!