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Governor's office signs capital budget with $960 million for affordable housing
Summary
The Governor's Office signed Senate Bill 6003, the capital budget that includes historic investments in affordable housing—bringing the biennium total to $960 million—and funds for school construction, tribal clean energy and flood recovery.
The Presenter signed the capital budget, Senate Bill 6003, in Olympia, celebrating what they called "the largest state funded housing investment in any supplemental budget in Washington state history." The Presenter said the package "invests more than $200,000,000 in affordable housing" and "brings Washington's total affordable housing investment for this biennium to $960,000,000."
Why it matters: the Presenter framed the budget as a response to a statewide housing shortage, saying "We literally need 1000000 new homes by 2044, and half of…
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