Shelters to Missing Middle: Housing for All

Wednesday, April 26, 2023

3:30 PM – 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Channel 1

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Sponsored By AARP

Division Endorsement: Housing and Community Development Division

Moderator and Speaker(s)

Laura Hodgson (she/her/hers)

Senior Planner
WA State Department of Commerce
Puyallup, Washington

Speaker(s)

PM

Patience Malaba
Sunaree Marshall (she/her/hers)

Deputy Director, Housing Homelessness and Community Development Division
King County Department of Community and Human Services
Seattle, Washington
Maren Murphy, AICP (she/her/hers)

Senior Planner
City of Spokane, WA
Spokane, Washington

Housing impacts us all. As more people find housing out of reach, homelessness becomes more pervasive in our communities. Also, as a large population reaches retirement age, with limited housing with support services available, all planners need to understand the housing gap facing us in the next 20 years. If we do not understand the state of the problem, we will miss the chance to start actively planning for society’s needs.

This presentation illuminates dimensions of the housing crisis in Washington State and a collective process to better understand it. It offers solutions to the crisis, including successful ways to approach housing gaps and equity issues at the county and local scales. Presenters share how to bring in advocates to support hard discussions and decisions to create housing for all.

NPC Peer Reviewers assigned this presentation a learning level of Intermediate. For more on learning-level descriptions, visit our General Information Page.

Learning Objectives:

Assess ways to project future housing needs for all incomes, emergency housing, and permanent supportive housing.
Replicate options for allocating future growth within regions and planning for housing needs at all income levels, across diverse city contexts.
Consider how local housing-planning efforts led to a progressive, interim, middle-housing ordinance; revised policies; and permanent regulation changes.