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Regional plan assigns large low-income housing need to Yelm; TRPC allocation adopted
Summary
Thurston Regional Planning Council adopted a countywide housing allocation that assigns a sizeable low-income housing need to Yelm and identifies a roughly 2,000-unit deficit the city must address in its comprehensive-plan update.
Thurston Regional Planning Council adopted a regional housing allocation that assigns Yelm a large portion of the county’s projected low-income housing need and identifies a gap of about 2,000 units the city must address during its comprehensive-plan update.
The allocation, presented to the Yelm City Council by Thurston Regional Planning Council planning manager Lisonbee Osterberg, translates a countywide need of roughly 54,000 housing units for 2020–2045 into jurisdiction-level targets by income bracket. "The law says jurisdictions must plan for and accommodate housing affordable to all economic segments of the population," Osterberg said. The regional council recommended — and adopted last December — a distribution that accounts for population growth rates,…
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