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This page contains information from Skagit County and the communities regarding what is being done to promote affordable housing/.  If you have suggestions for additional materials or how I can make this page more useful, please let me know.  Ed West 608-792-9387 cell or ctn33319@gmail.com
 
If there is not enough affordable housing in our communities, where will our teachers, food service workers, firefighters, police and etc. live?  Gregg Colburn, a professor at UW, spoke about how housing availablily contributes to homelessness.  Chick here for a 1 hour presentation by Gregg that is worth your time to start your education on housing issues.
Getting To Yes on Affordable Housing in Skagit County
 
The League of Women Voters of Skagit County is in the preliminary stages in putting together a series of meetings intended to inform Skagit County residents about the issus surrounding affordable housing in our county.  We are defining this as housing affordable to households earning between 60 and 120 percent of the area median income.
 
  1. Identify the problem to be addressed - We need affordable housing in our communities for employees of local firms, including teachers, firefighters, police, manufacturing, restaurants, nurses.  Essentially everyone that works in our communities.  We are defining this as housing affordable to households earning between 60 and 120 percent of the area median income.
  2. Identify, with each community, why there is a lack of affordable housing.  This would be customized with input from the experts / professionals in each community but may include: housing density, height restrictions, lack of balance between zoning for multifamily vs, single family housing, etc.
  3. What policy solutions exist for each community.  Again, the solutions would be provided by the local experts / professionals from the community
  4. What positive actions have been taken locally they have taken  toward solving the lack of affordable housing.
 
To proceed with these public forums, the LWV will need to partner with:
  1. Skagit Council of Governments
  2. Skagit housing consortium
  3. Housing Authority of Skagit County
  4. Skagit Habitat for Humanity
  5. Home Trust of Skagit
  6. Community Action Agency
  7. local housing authorities
  8. Local Tribes
  9. Many other local interested parties, etc.
 
If you are interested in participating in this project, please call or text Ed West at 6087929387 cell
 
Housing for Our Whole Community - Anacortes 
 
Learn:
 
Click Here to watch a recording
of the Tuesday October 25 2022 event