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Ellensburg details affordable-housing projects, incentives and code changes
Summary
City staff outlined recent and planned affordable-housing projects including Habitat homeownership units, HopeSource adaptive reuse of Knights Inn for 78 units, and a downtown mixed-income development; the city also described regulatory changes to encourage smaller units and ADUs.
Ellensburg planning staff gave a progress report on local affordable-housing projects and regulatory changes intended to encourage smaller, income-restricted units.
City housing staff said more than a quarter of Ellensburg households are severely cost-burdened (spending more than 50% of income on housing) and that most cost-burdened households are renters. Staff reviewed completed and planned projects: Habitat for Humanity’s Stuart Meadows homeownership project on Bender Road has six…
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