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How to Be a Housing Voter

Do you want to get involved in making an impact on the issues that matter to you? Contacting your representatives is a great way to start.

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Habitat on the Hill

Over 600 representatives of Habitat for Humanity from across the country poured onto Capitol Hill for Habitat on the Hill, 2024.

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2024 Legislative Priorities

Coming off of last year's historic investment in housing, we are excited to continue working with legislators to make the cost of home affordable in the 2024 legislative session. Preview our legislative priorities here.

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2023 Legislative Recap

The 2023 Legislative Session was a year of unprecedented investment in housing, with the Washington State Legislature championing the preservation and growth of affordable housing in varying markets. Learn how Tacoma Habitat was impacted.

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Legislative Priority

Legislative Priority

Our 2023 legislative priority is bold. It's a $14M direct allocation to preserve 80 homes for modest-income, first-time homebuyers. Not only will we purchase, rehabilitate and resell these homes; we'll also keep them permanently affordable.

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AMI Limits

As they do each summer, HUD released the new Area Median Income (AMI) limits and rather than incremental change as we are accustomed to seeing, the numbers this year took big leaps across the board.…

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Upzoning

Upzoning

Navigating state bills can be difficult to follow, especially with finding the differences and similarities between SB 5670 and HB 1782.

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Sine Die, 2022

Sine Die, 2022

It’s Sine Die, the adjournment day of the 2022 Washington legislative session, and looking back at our 2022 legislative priorities, there's a lot to celebrate.

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