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Washington State is in a housing crisis. Home prices and rents in some communities have ballooned 20 to 30 percent in the last year. A slew of bills was introduced in the Washington Legislature to address the crisis, but only a handful will likely become law.
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Interstate 90 split a Spokane Black community in two, and demolished a stretch of affordable homes. Land purchased to construct the North South Freeway also displaced many of the city’s lowest-income residents. A bill passed Wednesday could restore that land to its former purpose.
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State law requires county commissioners to reconfigure the board. Before voting, Commissioners criticized the law’s prime sponsor and said they were disappointed by the local press and the public’s reaction to their candidates.
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Unions, nurse argue changing staffing ratios would address the nurse burnout crisis. Hospitals say it would be prohibitively expensive to implement
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Most local governments allow duplexes or fourplexes in specific areas. But often they’re blocked from being built-in single-family neighborhoods. Senator Mona Das, a Democrat from Kent, argues that system locks working class people out of homeownership, and leaves them with few affordable rentals.
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Washington lawmakers held a committee meeting yesterday to hear testimony for a proposal that asks the federal government to support restoring salmon runs…