More like these please RICHARD THEIS / EYEEM / GETTY IMAGES
This session lawmakers in Olympia failed to move on legislation to increase the supply of market-rate housing statewide, which means Washington’s hot-hot market will stay hot, and our housing deficit will likely continue spiraling out of control. That’s bad news for people looking to buy homes, and bad news for lower-income renters forced to compete for apartments with well-off people gainfully employed by our region’s neato technology companies.
Setting that particular part of the issue aside for a moment, Democrats did do well to dedicate hundreds of millions of dollars (mostly from federal sources) to help fund affordable